Accession Data

Curcuma sp. nov.

Common Name: Kress Collection, SI#2003030

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Myanmar: Rakhine State

Habitat: Understory of deciduous forest

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900173

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

Confirmed At: 2026-03-10 19:18:39

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3206

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#2003030

Provenance:

Kress# 03-7278
Kress, W. J., Aye Pe, Than Than Htay, (BURMA), Win Win Aung, (BURMA), Bordelon, M.
Myanmar: Rakhine State: 
16 miles N of Gwa towards Keintali
17.7175, 94.5381, 16 Jun 2003

Shoots to 50 cm, leaves green with red petioles; 
inflorescence terminal on leafy shoot, bracts red with yellow base; flowers yellow

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
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

References

  1. 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 Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.

Images

Curcuma sp. nov.