Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Heliconia latispatha Hedychium coronarium Musa paradisiaca	John Myers John Myers

Pseudostems well developed, 1–3 m. Inflorescences projecting from tip of pseudostem, dense, conelike [lax]; bracts of main axis crowded [not crowded], [2.5–] 4–6 [–7] cm, ovate to lanceolate [or almost circular]; cincinni sessile, [1–] 2–3 [–6] -flowered, enclosed in bracts; bracteoles small, inconspicuous, hidden by bracts. Flowers: calyx cylindric, 3-toothed or lobed, split down one side [not split]; corolla-tube slender, lobes linear; filament linear, tubular-incurved, enclosing style; anther long-exserted, not spurred, terminal appendage none; lateral staminodes large, petallike, lip oblong, plane, 2-lobed. Fruits capsule, globose. x = 17.

Distribution

Introduced; North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Australia, native, Asia and Madagascar

Discussion

Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Hedychium coronarium