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Accession Data

Aframomum angustifolium

Common Name: Guinea Grains

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Trop. Africa, Madagascar

Description: Herbaceous perennial plant producing dense stands of leafy stems 1.5 - 4 metres tall from a tuberous rootstock.3

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900112

Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3206

Quantity: 3

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1992039

Provenance: 

Kress# 92-3403
Kress, W. J.
Madagascar: Nosy Mangabe, 21-FEB-1992

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Alpinioideae

Tribe: Alpinieae

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
  3. Useful Tropical Plants. Last accessed on Friday, 14 June, 2019.
  4. IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Friday, 14 June, 2019.
  5. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Tuesday, 16 July, 2019.

Images

Aframomum angustifolium
Aframomum angustifolium