特徵描述
作者
KOYAMA, Tetsuo and BOUFFORD, David E.
型態特徵
Perennials. Rhizome tuberous or sometimes short decumbent, nodose. Stems erect, simple or branched. Leaves basal, cauline; blades broad, sheathing at base, pinnately nerved, costa, and fine oblique parallel lateral nerves prominent. Inflorescence terminal, spicate, racemose or sometimes more or less paniculate. Flowers showy, irregular, and asymmetric; sepals 3, small, more or less scale-like; petals 3, mostly lanceolate, inconspicuous; staminodia showy, petaloid, mostly 5 in cultivated plants, 4 of them narrowly spathe-like; ovary inferior, 3-locular, ovules many in each locule. Fruit a capsule, 3-valved.
屬
Only the single genus Canna.
