1064
Boesenbergia longiflora
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Synonym |
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Gastrochilus
longiflorus Wall. |
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Family |
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Zingiberaceae |
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Flowering and fruiting period |
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May to September |
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Distribution |
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Myanmar and India |
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Key
botanical characters: Rhizome
small, irregularly shaped, c. 1 cm diam., externally brown, internally light
yellow to white; multiple, small bulb-like rhizomes above the main rhizome;
tuberous roots two or more, c. 8 × 0.5 cm, swelling at the terminus, c. 2 × 1
cm, externally white or pink, internally white, root hairs few, c. 20 mm
long, thin, white. Leaves 5–8 per pseudostem; lamina elliptic or broadly
ovate, 41–61 × 20– 21 cm, plicate, adaxially dark green, glabrous, abaxially
lighter green, glabrous with a few hairs on the midrib, base rounded to
cordate, sometimes asymmetric, apex acute to long acuminate. Inflorescence
radical, c. 3–4 per pseudostem, up to c. 12 cm long (including peduncle)
produced from the side of the rhizome; peduncle 1–3 cm long, white, glabrous,
basal sheaths 1–2, pink and white, glabrous; spike horn-shaped, 5–10 × 1–2
cm; bracts 3–4, distichous, cymbiform, 5–6 × 1.5 cm, red and green, glabrous,
each bract enclosing one flower. Flowers 2–3 per inflorescence, up to c. 11
cm long.  |
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