Family: Zingiberaceae
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Etlingera biloba A.D. Poulsen
Isotype of Etlingera biloba A.D. Poulsen
Collector/Expedition: Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Kinho, Julianus, Sandaling, Tinus & Mandei, Nikolas
Collection number: 2820
Collection date: 25th February 2009
Country/Territory: Indonesia
Collecting locality: Indonesia:Sulawesi. North Sulawesi Province. Along trail from Boyong Atas village to Gunung Lolombulan.
Latitude: 1°5'9''N, Longitude: 124°25'37''E
Habitat: Primary forest.
Description: Terrestrial herb. Rhizome long-creeping (36?54 cm between neighbouring shoots). Leafy shoot to 1.75 m long. Base to 2.5 cm diam., red when young. Sheath yellow-green, margin red when young. Ligule 5?6 mm long, wine-red to brown. Petiole to 5 mm long. Lamina to 28 x 6.5 cm, mid-green, not plicate, glabrous, base cuneate, apex recurved. Inflorescence from rhizome. Peduncle 3?3.5 cm long, subterranean, with brown bracts. Spike loose, 3.5 x 3 cm (incl. bracts only), flowers extending 4 cm above bracts, with 17 flowers, 2 open at a time. Bract, bracteole and calyx pale yellow-green, bud pinkish. Corolla white; upper 5 mm of lobes tinged pink especially near margin. Labellum cream with pale yellow-green centre; terminal lobe deeply bilobed, pale pink. Stamen and stigma cream. Taste of centre of lower leafy shoot: very bitter. Common to 1200 m.
Miscellaneous notes: Deposited at: AAU, BO, E, SING. Photographed. Material in spirit. DNA sampled.
Kind of specimen: SPIRIT
Barcode: E00830614
Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00830614
Herbarium region: 6C (Malay Islands)
Number of sheets: 1
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Herbarium sheetE00564725
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Herbarium sheetE00564726
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Herbarium sheetE00564728
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SpiritE00830613
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