External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60474165-2
- Publication
- Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London
- Collation
- 9: t. 774
- Date of Publication
- 1 Feb 1824
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Zingiberaceae
Type Information
- Distribution Of Types
- Nepal (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Remarks
Protologue: The plant has been only lately received in this country from the Calcutta garden; where we hear it was introduced by Mr. Gardner, the East India Company's resident at the seat of the Nepal government. Author cited as Sheppard but refers to John Shepherd, curator of Liverpool Bot. Gard.