Clumping herb to 1 m tall. Leaves thick, lanceolate to 45 cm long, 12 cm wide, ovate-lanceolate, dark green with grey bands between the major veins on the upper surface, purple below, tip with a long, narrow point. Flower clusters in pairs, to about 7 cm long. Flowers white.
Eastern Brazil
Source: (2005). Marantaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Ctenanthe oppenheimiana 'Tricolor'
Leaves with cream blotches on the upper surface, dark red below.
