Curcuma sp. nov.

Common name: Kress Collection, SI#2001169

Family: Zingiberaceae

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Country of Origin: Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Thabeikyin Township

Description:

Uses:

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Source: Kress Collection, SI#2001169

Provenance:

Kress# 01-6901
Kress, W. J., Thet Htun, Bordelon, M., Williams, K. J., Rehse, T.
Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Thabeikyin Township
Shwe-u-Daung National Park
Ridgetop understory of bamboo forest with large deciduous tree canopy.
12 Jun 2001, 22.9233, 96.1639

Shoots to 75 cm, leaves entirely green.  
Inflorescence terminal on leafy shoot, fertile bracts green with red stripe, sterile coma bracts white with pink.  
Flowers: petals white, lateral staminodes yellow, labellum yellow with deep yellow stripe.

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Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Liliopsida
• SubClass: commelinids
• Order: Zingiberales
• SubOrder:
• Family: Zingiberaceae
• SubFamily: Zingiberoideae
• Tribe: Zingibereae
• SubTribe:

References:

1. Image #00 (cropped) & #01-05 (originals) 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 Thursday, 01 August, 2019.

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