Herbarium catalogue

Family: Zingiberaceae

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.

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.

Barcode: E00564726

Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00564726

Herbarium region: 6C (Malay Islands)

Number of sheets: 2