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|accepted_name=Heliconia latispatha
|accepted_authority=Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur
|place=6:170. 1846
|year=1846
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Heliconiaceae;Heliconia;Heliconia latispatha
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Heliconiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Heliconia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Heliconia latispatha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>2–4 m, pseudostem well-developed. <b>Leaves</b> 3–5 per shoot, green, longest blade 75–150 × 18–33 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, to 45 cm; cincinnal bracts spirally arranged, 8–13 per inflorescence, middle bract with outer surface orange and/or red and glabrous, 14–19.5 cm, 5–7 cm wide at base. <b>Flowers</b> 10–15 per cincinnus; perianth green, yellow, or orange with dark green sepal margins, sometimes sparsely puberulent along fused sepal margins, 3.5–4.6 cm, 7–8 mm wide at gibbous base, nearly straight; sepal margins, fused, dark green, glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulous. <b>Drupes</b> blue, 10–13 × 8–9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early fall (Sep).
|habitat=Disturbed areas
|elevation=0–4 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies;native;Mexico;Central America;and South America.
|discussion=<p>In the flora <i>Heliconia latispatha</i> often persists in old gardens but only rarely spreads outside them.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=andersson1984a
|text=Andersson, L. 1984. The chromosome number of Heliconia (Musaceae). Nordic J. Bot. 4: 191--193.
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name=Heliconia latispatha
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Heliconiaceae
|phenology=Flowering early fall (Sep).
|habitat=Disturbed areas
|elevation=0–4 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies;native;Mexico;Central America;and South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=andersson1984a
|publication title=The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur
|publication year=1846
|special status=
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|genus=Heliconia
|species=Heliconia latispatha
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