CHR 603178 A – Zingiber officinale Roscoe
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 603178 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
10 November 2008
Database record updated:
13 October 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Zingiber officinale
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2003-02-14 (Verbatim: 14 Feb 2003)
Preferred name:
Zingiber officinale Roscoe
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Zingiberales
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 15/03
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
13 Feb 2003
Start date:
2003-02-13
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Glasshouse. Cultivated.
Notes:
Rhizomatous herb; rhizomes pale pink or creamy, strongly smelling of ginger. Leafy shoots 70-80 cm long; lamina dark green. Inflor. erect, on leafless shoots to c. 15 cm high. Inflor. c. 7 x 2 cm, fusiform. Primary bracts green with pale cream margin, appressed. Bracteoles 2, membranous, transparent, very unequal. Perianth c. 4.5 cm long, i.e. the pale yellow outer whorl; dorsal segment 2-2.5 cm long, acute, narrow oblong, lower 2 segments shorter, narrow oblong, soon recurving. Labellum c. 1.7 cm long, broad elliptic-obovate, strongly concave, pale yellow with dark purple in upper part; labellum lobes c. 1 cm long, ± oblong, dark purple in upper ½ to ⅔. Stamen c. 1.5 cm long including strongly curved dark purple crest appendage 0.6-0.8 cm long. Style thread-like, > stamen appendage.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
[Unknown]
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B, C (Spirit: 1-08071)
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