Accession Data

Zingiber sp.

Common Name: Kress Collection, SI#2003054

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Myanmar: Rakhine State

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900322

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3210

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#2003054

Provenance:

Kress# 03-7313
Kress, W. J., Aye Pe, Than Than Htay, (BURMA), Win Win Aung, (BURMA), Bordelon, M.
Myanmar: Rakhine State
10 miles S of Taung-gok towards Thandwe
Understory of indaing forest.
18 Jun 2003, 18.5972, 94.35

Shoots to 1.5 m, leaves green above, purple below; sheaths purple.  
Inflorescence basal, bracts mottled pink red.  No open flowers.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Zingiberoideae

Tribe: Zingibereae

References

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 Monday, 05 August, 2019.

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