Description:
Herbs, often very robust. Stem a small to gigantic, erect to rhizomatous, seasonally dormant tuber. Leaves solitary, basal, often gigantic; petiole very long, terete, aculeate, rarely smooth, sheath very short; blade saggitate at first, later trisect with primary divisions divided
Distribution:
Species 7 or 8, trop. Africa; 2 in sthn trop. Afr., Angola, Zambia, ?Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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