Description
This has six or so oval leaves, each on a short pink stem and arranged radially at the top of a short stem. The lower leaf surface is heavily stained with purple. The upper leaf surface is a dusky, blue-green with the veins picked out in a lighter shade, not classically variegated in the manner of say luquanensis, but noticeably different to the plain-leaved species and very decorative. In size it is larger than luquanensis and better suited to garden use, while still being small enough to make a good pot subject if looked after.
The flower has six, petal-like bracts of lighter green, with light veining in a similar shade, and these bracts subtend six yellow, spidery petals and yellow anthers all arranged around a red-tipped green ovary. All in all a very colourful, yet essentially green, flower.
Growth is as for the other species though increase is painfully slow and availability on this one is one or twice a decade at most
