Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
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Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe (1824)
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
Nomenclature
Carey ex Roscoe
Roscoe
1824
ICN
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
species
Hedychium 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.
Taxonomic concepts
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 Carey ex Roscoe
Hedychium flavescens Roscoe
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621a8e80-668b-4ecb-a91f-4a38e265a423
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1 January 2000
31 December 2023