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Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe

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Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe (1824)
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Carey ex Roscoe
Roscoe
1824
ICN
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
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Hedychium flavescens

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flavescens

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Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe

Rhizomes thick, fleshy. stems stout, erect, leafy, (1)-2-3 m high. Leaves to 50 × 10 cm, lanceolate, sessile, tapered to acuminate apex, under surface with scattered fine soft white hairs; ligule 3.5-5 cm long, membranous, brownish, finely pubescent. Inflorescence c 15 × 10 cm, compact, cone-like, with broad overlapping fimbriate bracts. Flowers fragrant, off-white to cream, 3 per bract. Calyx 3.5-5 cm long, with scattered hairs except at centre and with a tuft of hairs at tip. Corolla-tube yellowish, c. 7 cm long; lobes narrow, c. 3.5 cm long, yellow-green. Lateral staminodia white to cream, c. 4 cm long, oblong-lanceolate. Labellum white to cream, often with yellow patch near base, c. 4 × 3cm, bilobed at apex, staminal-filament white to cream, top of anther protruding slightly beyond lip. Fruit not seen.

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Hedychium coronarium sensu New Zealand Botanists
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium coronarium var. subditum sensu New Zealand Botanists
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe

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Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Cook Islands
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
French Polynesia
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District

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621a8e80-668b-4ecb-a91f-4a38e265a423
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
31 December 2023
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