The inflorescence is a scorpioid cyme and it is subtended by a boat-like spathe.
2.
Flowers are borne in " scorpioid cymes, " i . e . on spirally curving stems resembling a scorpion's tail or a half-unfurled fiddlehead fern leaf.
3.
The inflorescence is composed of one or two cincinni, also called scorpioid cymes, which are monochasiums ( i . e . cymes with a single branched main false axis ) in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis.
परिभाषा
a cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks