Hedychium gardnerianum Wall. ex Roscoe
, Monandr. Pl. Scitam. 1-2: t. 62 (1824), isonym.- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:796853-1
- Publication
- Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae, Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Boanic Garden at Liverpool. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus, with Descriptions and Observations by William Roscoe. Liverpool
- Collation
- 1-2: t. 62
- Date of Publication
- Feb-Apr 1824
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Zingiberaceae
Original Data
- Remarks
- Reg. Himal
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: isonym
Remarks
Protologue: Our first knowledge of this superb Plant, was derived from a fine dried specimen, the spike of which was eighteen inches long, sent by Dr. Wallich, from Calcutta, to which we had given the name of H. excelsum; but having afterwards, (in September 1819,) received from the same liberal quarter, the living-Plant, under the name of H. Gardnerianum, a name adopted by Dr. Wallich, in honour of Edward Gardner, Esq. British Resident at the Court of Napal ...