Accession Data

Curcuma sp. nov.

Common Name: Kress Collection, SI#2001169

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Thabeikyin Township

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900314

Accession Date: 2019-08-01 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3205

Quantity: 2

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.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Zingiberoideae

Tribe: Zingibereae

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
2022
2021
2020
2019

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.

Images

Curcuma sp. nov.