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Etlingera elatior
Leaf stems 150 cm, diameter of the flower 10 cm. Etlingera species are large, perennial herbaceous plants reach stature heights of up to 8 meters. They form creeping, thick rhizomes as Überdauerungsorgane. There are formed mostly robust "pseudo strains" of mostly many leaves. The leaf sheath is long. The leaf shed (ligules) are simple or bilobed. The large leaves are divided into petioles and leaf blades lanceolate.
Tropical garden, Costa Rica. The main distribution area is Indonesia. Species come from the Himalayas through India, China and Thailand to Indonesia, Malaysia and northern Australia (Queensland) ago. On Borneo, there are 42 species.