macroscopical cloves ovoid and 3-to 4-sided summit acute narrowed into a thread like portion of fibre base truncate each clove is covered with a white scale leaf and a pinkish white or purplish white epidermis easily separated from fthe solid portion consisting of two flaky scale leaves and two yellowish green conduplicate foliage leaves
microscopical inner epidermis consists of bead-walled elongated cell,hypodermis of thick-walled elongated cell with triangular intercellular spaces at the corners.Scale leaf cell lignified.Fleshy scale leaves have a thin-walled epidermis,amesophyll of oval parenchymatous cell and faintly lignified annular and spiral vessels