Accession Data

Smithatris myanmarensis

Family: Zingiberaceae

Synonym(s): Curcuma myanmarensis (W.J.Kress) Škornick.

Country of Origin: Myanmar

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900167

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3204

Quantity: 1

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

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Zingiberoideae

Tribe: Zingibereae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

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.

Images

Smithatris myanmarensis
Smithatris myanmarensis