Accession Data

Stachyphrynium spicatum

Family: Marantaceae

Country of Origin: SE. India, Sri Lanka, China (S. Yunnan) to Indo-China

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900238

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3206

Quantity: 2

Source: Kress Collection, SI#2001162

Provenance:

Kress# 01-6894
Kress, W. J., Thet Htun, Bordelon, M., Williams, K. J., Rehse, T.
Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Thabeikyin Township
Shwe-u-Daung National Park
22.9936, 96.1422, 11 Jun 2001

Shoots to 50 cm tall, leaves all green.  
Inflorescence on basal shoot, bracts green.  
Flowers white with pale yellow.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Marantaceae

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). 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.

Images

Stachyphrynium spicatum
Stachyphrynium spicatum