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Accession Data

Etlingera sp.

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Myanmar: Rakhine State

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900272

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3212

Quantity: 3

Source: Kress Collection, SI#2004093

Provenance: 

Kress# 04-7767
Kress, W. J., Bordelon, M., Tin Maung Ohn, Yangon University, Ko Tin, Yangon University
Myanmar: Rakhine State
Thinn Kyit Mountain, 3 miles N of Mrauk U
Secondary growth
15 Nov 2004, 20.6533, 93.1717

Shoots to 1.5 m, leaves green. Rhizome with odor of sassafras.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Alpinioideae

Tribe: Alpinieae

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 Friday, 02 August, 2019.

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Etlingera sp.