Herbarium catalogue

Family: Zingiberaceae

Etlingera eburnea A.D. Poulsen

Isotype of Etlingera eburnea A.D. Poulsen

Collector/Expedition: Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Firdaus, & Tiburrung, Sahir

Collection number: 2775

Collection date: 29th January 2009

Country/Territory: Indonesia

Collecting locality: Indonesia:Sulawesi. South Sulawesi Province. Trail from Karangan to Rantemario. Just above camp 3.

Habitat: Montane forest on ridge with many mosses incl. Dawsonia.

Description: Terrestrial herb. Leafy shoots to 65-135 cm long when flowering, 14-20 cm between neighbouring shoots. Rhizome to 5 mm across. Base 1.3 cm diam., reddish brown. Ligule to 4 mm long.Petiole to 7 mm long, winged in upper part. Lamina to 185 x 4 cm, narrowly obovate, mid-green, base rounded. Inflorescence from rhizome, 8-10.5 cm long incl. flowers, with 10-14 flowers. Peduncle 3-4.5 cm long, with bracts that are cream with pale purple base or plain brown. Spike 5-5.5 x 1.5-3 cm. Bracts pale yellowish, base tinged purple. Bracteole membranous, - orange-brown with reddish base OR cream with pale red base. Calyx cream yellow with purplish base (4-5 mm). Ovary with silvery brown hairs. Corolla tube and staminal tube white. Corolla lobes pale yellowish. Labellum pale yellowish, lateral margin involute, terminal margin frilly: perhaps not fully opened. Stamen white; theca with long brown hairs. Stigma white.

Miscellaneous notes: Deposited at: AAU, BO, E. Photographed. Material in spirit. DNA sampled.

Barcode: E00531916

Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00531916

Herbarium region: 6C (Malay Islands)

Number of sheets: 2