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Hedychium gardneranum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Hedychium gardneranum - Flowers, close-up - Click to enlarge!

Flowers, close-up; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Hedychium gardneranum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 8/2008 © Ralf Germer

Hedychium gardneranum - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Hedychium gardneranum - Pruned rhizomes - Click to enlarge!

Pruned rhizomes; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Hedychium gardneranum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Hedychium gardneranum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 607
Date of entry: 12.07.2007
Last update: 04.09.2023

Common name

English: Kahli Ginger

German: Girlandenblume

Portuguese: Conteira, Roca-da-velha

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Zingiberales (26)

        Family: Zingiberaceae (12)(family description)

          Genus: Hedychium (6)

            Epithet: gardneranum Sheph. ex Ker Gawl. (1)

gardneranum => after Edward Gardner, political resident in Nepal

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: red, orange, yellow

External links

Check for Hedychium gardneranum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [35] Barthlott,W. (1998): Dumonts große Pflanzenenzyklopädie. Dumont Verlag, Köln, Germany.

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