Accession Data

Elettariopsis smithiae

Common Name: Elettariopsis smithiae

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Pen. Thailand to Pen. Malaysia

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900179

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3211

Quantity: 2

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1999069

Provenance:

Kress# 99-6313
Kress, W. J., Collins, M., Sukhavanich, N.
Thailand: Loei Province: Phu Rua District
Phu Rua, near town.
17.4658, 101.3658, 18 Apr 1999

Shoots to 45 cm tall, leaves green, glaucous below.  
Inflorescence on basal shoots, bracts white. 
Flowers: calyx and corolla white; labellum white with yellow orange callosic stripe.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Alpinioideae

Tribe: Alpinieae

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

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019) (as Amomum smithiae). 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. Monaco Nature Encyclopedia. Last accessed on Tuesday, 14 January, 2020.

Images

Elettariopsis smithiae
Elettariopsis smithiae