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Collector Poulsen, A.D.
Number 2376
Collected with Phongsak Phonsena & Boonchuang Boonsuk
Country Thailand
Subpart Chanthaburi
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Locality Khao Soi Dao
Coordinates 12° 55' N 102° 14' E
Minimum elevation (m) 450
Maximum elevation (m) 450
Start date 2005/05/25
End date 2005/05/25
Family Zingiberaceae
Identification Etlingera littoralis (Koen.)Giseke
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Field notes Terrestrial herb to 4-5 m. Rhizome long-creepiong, scales reddisg. Base 6 cm, greenish brown. heath green, striate, cross-ribbed. Ligulee to 10 mm. Petiole to 35 mm. Lamina to 74 x 14 cm. Young leaf flushed red near margin. Inflorescence from rhizome near base, to 22 cm, with 1517 flowers. Spike 9 x 3.5 cm, peduncular scales cream to pale brown tinged red -especially at apex. Sterile bracts similar. Fertile bracts white, pubescent, apex reddish. Bracteole cream. Calyx pale pink. corolla lobe white, pink in upper 3 cm. Stigma pale pink. Taste and smell like aniseed and petrol. Deposited at: BKF, BK, E, AAU. DNA sampled. Spirit material E00783744.

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