The plant is a perennial grass.
Its name derives from the Greek word for comb, because its bracts (many together) and have sharp shipcheta resemble a comb. The leaves are large, tselokrayni, asimetrini, oval or elongated-oval. They are about 40 centimeters long, the upper side with a velvety surface and green stripes and the bottom of the wine is purple or red. Night leaf face. Its blooms are small, nondescript, pale purple. Interestingly in the bracts. The colors are klasovidni clusters.
The plant loves ventilated place (without air currents).

Stalks of the leaves are upright and dissected (as opposed to those of kalateyata who are also facing but uses).

Ctenanthe genus is mainly distributed in Brazil. Kalateite and they are very attractive, but difficult to gledane.ne like direct sunlight, temperatures below 15 degrees, cold and hard water, and after replanting and fertilization. Most likely to encounter Ctenanthe oppenheimiana tricolor with leaves mottled with cream color.