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Accession Data

Curcuma sp.

Common Name: Kress Collection, SI#2006022

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: China: Yunnan

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900328

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3206

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#2006022

Provenance: 

Kress# 06-8398
Kress, W. J., Gao, J.-Y., Xia, Y. M.
China: Yunnan
Between Liang He and Yin Jiang
Understory of secondary growth bordering bamboo forest.
10 Jul 2006, 

Shoots to 1 m, leaves all green, rhizome pale yellow inside.  
Inflorescence terminal, lower bracts yellow green, coma bracts white with purple to pink distally. 
Flowers with white petals and yellow labellum.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Zingiberoideae

Tribe: Zingibereae

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.

Images

Curcuma sp.