Accession Data

Alpinia maclurei

Family: Zingiberaceae

Synonym(s): Alpinia guangdongensis S.J. Chen & Z.Y. Chen

Country of Origin: S. China to Vietnam

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900118

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3206

Quantity: 2

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1997041

Provenance:

Rcvd as Alpinia guangdongensis S.J. Chen & Z.Y. Chen

Kress# 97-5773
Kress, W. J., Gallagher, N. L., Liu, Nian
South China Botanic Gardens Academia Sinica
Cultivated at South China Botanical Garden.
30 Mar 1997

Shoots to 1.5 m in height, leaves green.  Inflorescence terminal; bracts brown, papery and stiff.  Flowers: all white with labellum red striped and yellow inside.

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.
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.

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