 It is dorso-ventrally flattened into a disk which hangs lantern-like from the peduncle attached at its center.It is green and variable in size, up to 18 cm in diameter.In most of its close relatives, the three locules of the ovary become three separate fruits, but in "Anthodon", they are united for their entire length and over half their width into a trilobed capsule with a notch at the end of each lobe.