Accession Data

Curcuma aff. cordata

Common Name: Kress Collection, SI#1998171

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Thailand

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900352

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

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3205

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1998171

Provenance:

Kress# 98-6212
Kress, W. J., Bordelon, M., Collins, M.
Thailand: 
19-24 km east of Mae Sariang towards the Salawin River.
Understory of evergreen wet forest, along small creek.
17 Jul 1998, 18.0331, 97.8886

Herb with shoots to 50 cm tall, leaves green.  
Inflorescence terminal on leafy shoot; basal bracts pale green with pink margins, upper bracts pink.  
Flowers pale yellow.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Zingiberoideae

Tribe: Zingibereae

References

Image #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 Friday, 02 August, 2019.

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