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Flowers solitary, nearly sessile in a tubular sac-like involucre, destitute of floral envelopes.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

Their flowers without floral envelopes; pistils two; fleshy and hairy; stigmas filiform; dark.

On opening the pointed spathe or floral envelope, a club-like mass will be noted arising from its base.

The term fruit is strictly applied to the mature pistil or ovary, with the seeds in its interior; but it often includes other parts of the flower, such as the bracts and floral envelopes.