A large herb up to 300 cm tall, with thick rhizome. Leaves are narrowly ovate-lanceolate, up to 40 cm x 9 cm. Inflorescence ascending, on peduncle up to 8 cm long, with few flowers, bracts membraneous, bracteoles tubular at the base. Flowers with corolla tube slightly longer than calyx, labellum spoon-shaped to almost circular and concave with emarginate apex, white with prominent middle vein, anther with a 3-lobed appendage having ear-shaped side lobes. Fruit is 1.5-2 cm long, yellowish-green and covered by small spines, difficult to break into 3 fragments.

As febrifuge, anti-emetic and antiseptic (fruit)

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Borneol, bornyl acetate, camphene, camphor, caryophyllene, limonene, linalool, myrcene, pinene, and terpinene (volatile oil); daucosterol (stem of the plant); beta-caryophyllene, alpha-humulene and paradol (seed).

Used to treat indigestion, diarrhoea, flatulence, gastralgia, toothache, enteritis, dysentery, nausea, vomiting, cough and asthma (fruit).