Curcuma sp.

Common name: Kress Collection, SI#2001200

Family: Zingiberaceae

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Country of Origin: Myanmar: Sagaing Division

Description:

Uses:

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Source: Kress Collection, SI#2001200

Provenance:

Kress# 01-6947
Kress, W. J., Thet Htun, Bordelon, M., Williams, K. J., Rehse, T.
Myanmar: Sagaing Division
Road 5 miles E of the Chindwinn River from Kalewa.
Understory of bamboo forest preferring low wet areas.
19 Jun 2001, 23.2097, 94.3503

Shoots to 1 m, leaves entirely green.  
Inflorescence terminal on leafy shoot, coma bracts pink, fertile bracts bright green.  
Flowers: calyx pale green, corolla yellow, median lobe with pink apex, lateral staminodes white, labellum white with central yell

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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 (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, 06 August, 2019.

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