Accession Data
Aframomum melegueta
Common Name: Grains of Paradise
Family: Zingiberaceae
Country of Origin: W. Trop. Africa to Angola
Description: Herbaceous perennial herb producing tufted stems 1 - 4 metres tall from a rhizomatous rootstock. 4
Accession Data
Accession #: 201900113
Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3313
Quantity: 2
Source: Kress Collection, SI#2009063
Provenance:
Collector# s.n. Miller, E. Ghana: near Atebubu The complete IPEN-number of this accession is GH-0-BONN-4971. Dr. Wolfram Lobin,; Kustos/Curator, Botanische Garten der Universitat Bonn plant given to U.S. Bot. Garden 15 June 2016
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
SubFamily: Alpinioideae
Tribe: Alpinieae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- J.D.D. Tamokou, A.T. Mbaveng, V. Kuete, Chapter 8 - Antimicrobial Activities of African Medicinal Spices and Vegetables in Medicinal Spices and Vegetables from Africa, 2017. Last accessed on Friday, 24 May, 2019.
- Useful Tropical Plants. Last accessed on Friday, 14 June, 2019.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Inna Moody / Flickr user: innamoo ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/moodyworld/ ). [CC BY]. Last accessed on Friday, 10 January, 2020.
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