Accession Data
Curcuma viridiflora
Family: Zingiberaceae
Country of Origin: Thailand to Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali)
Accession Data
Accession #: 201900174
Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3205
Quantity: 1
Source: Kress Collection, SI#1997133
Provenance:
Kress# 97-5812 Kress, W. J., , Bell, D. A., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES), Thet Htun Myanmar: Sagaing Division: Kani Township Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park; Butolong Reserve, between Thebeik Sae Base Camp and Pagoda. 22.3175, 94.4678, 16 Jul 1997 Herb with shoots to 1.3 m, leaves green. Infl. terminal on leafy shoots. Bracts spiral, upper sterile bracts white with purple apices, lower bracts green with purple apices. Flowers: corolla cream, labellum yellow with deep yellow central stripe.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
SubFamily: Zingiberoideae
Tribe: Zingibereae
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 Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.
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