Zingiber sp.

Common name: Kress Collection, SI#2003054

Family: Zingiberaceae

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Country of Origin: Myanmar: Rakhine State

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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.

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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 Monday, 05 August, 2019.

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