矮球子草

植物簡介

It is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches up to 80 cm tall. The leaves are green, almost linear or elliptic to ovate or obovate, measuring up to 12.5 - 37.5 cm long × 1.5 - 8.5 cm wide. Pleats are visible throughout the length of the leaves. The petioles (leaf stalks) are 7.5 - 45 cm long and slightly compressed. Scale leaves are present on some nodes of the rhizomes (thick, horizontal modified stems). The inflorescence is an unbranched raceme, measuring up to 20 cm long. The peduncle (central stalk on the inflorescence) is flattened at the base and can be up to 35 cm long. Individual flowers are sometimes green but often white, violet or purple, usually subtended by oval-shaped bracts. Flowers are made up of tepals (indistinguishable petals and sepals that resemble one another), fused stamens forming a disc and a pistil. The fruit is an ellipsoid berry that matures from green to blue. The blue seeds are numerous, each up to 10 - 12 mm long.