Herbarium catalogue

Family: Zingiberaceae

Etlingera acanthodes A.D. Poulsen

Isotype of Etlingera acanthodes A.D. Poulsen

Collector/Expedition: Poulsen, Axel Dalberg & Firdaus,

Collection number: 2660

Collection date: 3rd March 2008

Country/Territory: Indonesia:Sulawesi Tengah

Collecting locality: Indonesia:Central Sulawesi [Sulawesi Tengah]:Lore Lindu National Park. Gunung Nokilalaki.

Habitat: Forest.

Description: Terrestrial herb in dense clump (7-10 cm between neighbouring shoots). Rhizome lifted by stilt-roots 10-20 cm above ground. Leafy shoot to 2.3 m long. Base to 4.2 cm diam., brown, reticulate. Sheath pale green. Ligule to 30 mm long, bilobed, brown. Lamina sessile, 58 x 14 cm, mid-green; beneath purple-brown (burgundy). Inflorescence from rhizome. Peduncle to 11 cm long, scales brown. Spike to 7.5 x 7 cm. Receptacle to 3 cm long, yellow. Bracts brown at base; red at apex. Fertile bract cream; brown at base; apex red, spiny. Bracteole transparent white, apex red. Calyx white, apex pink. Corolla tube white, lobes pale pink. Staminal tube white. Labellum pale pink, apex bilobed. Filament white. Anther pale pink. Stigma purple. Vernacular name: tikala (Kulawi language).

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

Barcode: E00531940

Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00531940

Herbarium region: 6C (Malay Islands)

Number of sheets: 3