Curculigo
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Description
Thickly rhizomatous herbs, hairy or glabrous.
Leaves radical, often petiolate, linear to broadly elliptic.
Inflorescences racemes or spikes, sometimes head-like, many- to few-flowered.
Flowers with the tepals united in a very short to elongate tube.
Stamens free, inserted at the mouth of the perigone-tube.
Fruits fleshy, indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent, often with a persistent beak.