CHR 495492 – Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 495492
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
16 September 1994
Database record updated:
21 March 2013
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1992-05-05 (Verbatim: 5 May 1992)
Preferred name:
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Zingiberales
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Austral Islands, Raivavae, west Anatonu
Verbatim locality:
Austral Islands, Raivavae, west Anatonu
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 94/FP
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
5 May 1992
Start date:
1992-05-05
Country:
French Polynesia
Habitat:
Cultivation relic in moist place.
Notes:
Herb with stout rhizome; buds (youngest shoots) glossy red. "Stem" erect to c.1.5 m. Inflorescence erect. Bracts strongly overlapping, very broad. Perianth pale creamy-yellow, deeper coloured in centre of labellum. See Perianth tube 7-8 cm long; lateral segments c. 4.5 cm long, elliptic-oblanceolate; labellum c. 4.5 x 3.7 cm, suborbicular except for claw, emarginate. Occasionally adventive slightly in lowland Raivavae.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Duplicates
BISH:
Direction:
Sent
K:
Direction:
Sent
Permissions
Project permits
Biocultural (BC) Notice
