Summary[edit] Description: English: Fruit of Aframomum zambesiacum. Photo taken near Izumbwe village, Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Date: 5 November 2006. Source: Own work. Author: Jawleyford. Permission(Reusing this file): Plants visited by bees and other useful plants of Umalila, Southern Tanzania.
W. John Kress, John Mood, Mamiyil Sabu, Linda Prince, Santanu Dey, E. Sanoj
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Summary[edit] Description: English: Larsenianthus arunachalensis M. Sabu, Sanoj & T.Rajesh Kumar. A inflorescence B apical part of leaf sheath with ligule and petiole C inflorescence bract D bracteole E calyx F flower, lateral view G floral tube H labellum I lateral staminodes J anther, front, back and lateral views K unicellular branched hairs inside corolla tube L stigma and upper portion of style M base of flower, cut-way view to show style and epigynous nectaries N ovary, transverse section. Line drawing by E. Sanoj from plants in cultivation; voucher Sanoj & Rajesh Kumar 105640. Date: 1 November 2010. Source: 'Larsenianthus, a new Asian genus of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) with four species doi:10.3897/phytokeys.1.658. Author: W. John Kress, John Mood, Mamiyil Sabu, Linda Prince, Santanu Dey, E. Sanoj.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Labelled close-up of the centre of a flower of Roscoea auriculata. Date: 9 October 2011. Source: Own work. Author: Peter coxhead.
Xiu Hu, Jia-qi Huang, Jia-chuan Tan, Yong-qingWu, Juan Chen
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Figure 2.
Hedychiumviridibracteatum X.Hu, sp. nov., flowers and their parts: A bract B bracteole C ovary D calyx tube E floral tube F corolla lobe G lateral staminodes H labellum I labellum claw J filament K anther.
herb to 1.5 m, leaves dark green; inflorescence bright orange, bracts orange, ovary bright green. Photo Project web address: www.inbio.ac.cr/pila-darwin/
Mainly reported from Ecuador and Peru and mainly from the Amazon basin. The fruit are edible. Photo from Omaere Etnobotanical Gardens, Puyo, Ecuador. In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/gingers/index.html
Hedychium gardnerianumKahili ginger. Grows in nature in the Himalayas in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Kahili ginger is regarded as one the 100 most invasive species in the world by the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group.. It is a serious weed in Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Azores. Some research indicates the villosin, a compound found in H. gardnerianum, may be of use in treatment of small cell lung cancer. Photographed in a private garden in Berkeley, CA where it grows as a pot plant.
Showing the dwarfing of the Torch Ginger flower-head by its giant plant. Known as Boca del Dragon here in Nicaragua and as Honje in its native Indonesia.In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/gingers/index.html
Khler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erluterndem Texte :.Gera-Untermhaus :Fr. Eugen Khler,[1883-1914].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/303314
Summary[edit] Description: Root of the galangal plant, used in Asian cooking and for medicinal uses. Date: 10 April 2007. Source: Own work. Author: Liza Daly (ld31337).
Summary[edit] Description: English: Dick Culbert: Likely 'alpinia, widespread in the Neotropics. All species of this genus with the exception of R. Cernua above, keep their flowers and fruit on stalks at the base of their larger plants. Date: 13 April 2012, 07:15:09. Source: http://www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/gingers/index.html. Author: Dick Culbert.