Smithatris myanmarensis

Common name:

Family: Zingiberaceae

Synonym(s): <i>Curcuma myanmarensis</i> (W.J.Kress) Škornick.

Country of Origin: Myanmar

Description:

Uses:

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USDA Zone:

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1999185

Provenance:

Collector# 99-6507
Kress, W. J., , Bordelon, M., Williams, K. J., Thet Htun
Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Pyin-Oo-Lwin Township

Herb with shoots to 50 cm, leaves entirely green.  
Inflorescence terminal on leafy shoots, scape green, lower bracts bright green, coma deep pink to pure white with many intermediates in population; bracts not pouched. 
Flowers: entirely yellow

Dat Taw Gyaik Water Fall,  Trail to waterfall
21.9786, 96.5528, 03 Jul 1999

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Culture:

Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Liliopsida
• SubClass: commelinids
• Order: Zingiberales
• SubOrder:
• Family: Zingiberaceae
• SubFamily: Zingiberoideae
• Tribe: Zingibereae
• SubTribe:

References:

1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 26 July, 2019.
2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (as Curcuma myanmarensis). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
3. BGCI Plant Search. Last accessed on Friday, 26 July, 2019.

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