Herbarium catalogue

Family: Zingiberaceae

Etlingera tubilabrum A.D.Poulsen

Isotype of Etlingera tubilabrum A.D.Poulsen

Collector/Expedition: Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Firdaus, & Wahid, Nordin

Collection number: 2669

Collection date: 5th March 2008

Country/Territory: Indonesia:Sulawesi Tengah

Collecting locality: Indonesia:Central Sulawesi [Sulawesi Tengah]:Trail from Sidaonta to Danau Lindu, c. 900 m E of Sidaonta.

Habitat: Forest margin opposite coffee plantation.

Description: Terrestrial herb in loose clump (to 25 cm between neighbouring shoots). Leafy shoot to 5.2 m long. Base of leafy shoot to 7 cm diam., reddish green. Sheath yellow-green. Ligule to 1 cm long, hidden by clasping leaf bases, pale yellow-green. Lamina to 120 x 22 cm, mid-green above; pale green beneath; base auriculate, lobes clasping the pseudostem. Inflorescence from rhizome. Peduncle ascending to erect, to 25 cm long; scales pale brown, margin reddish brown. Spike 7-11 x 4 cm. Bracts pale reddish brown, rigid. Fertile bracts: lower similar to sterile bracts; upper creamish brown, pale brown at apex, mucronate. Calyx cream, apex pale reddish. Corolla white, lobes pale yellow. Filament white. Anther pale brown. Stigma white. Fully developed infructescence head to 23 x 12 cm, ovoid to narrowly ovoid. Fruit 3.5 x 3 cm, with two lateral nobs, bract persistent, calyx persistent, adpressed. Vernacular name: tikala (Kulawi language). Taste of centre of leafy shoot base: pine.

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

Barcode: E00643280

Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00643280

Herbarium region: 6C (Malay Islands)

Number of sheets: 2