Accession Data

Alpinia malaccensis

Common Name: Rathkihiriya

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Assam to China (Yunnan)

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900119

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3314

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#2002074

Provenance:

Kress# 02-7078
Kress, W. J., Thet Htun, Bordelon, M., Khin Maung Hla
Myanmar: Kachin State: Myitkyina Township
50 km N of Myitkyina towards Putao above the confluence of the two rivers.
25.7692, 97.4953, 25 Feb 2002

herb; Shoots to 1 m, leaves and stem densely pubescent.  Sterile.

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. 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.
  4. Useful Tropical Plants. Last accessed on Monday, 27 January, 2020.

Images

Alpinia malaccensis
Alpinia malaccensis