Entry for AMOMUM subsericeum Oliv. & Hanb. [family ZINGIBERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
AMOMUM subsericeumOliv. & Hanb. [family ZINGIBERACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 110. —Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 2484.
Information
Rootstock stout, wide-creeping. Leafy stem, 10–12 ft. long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, moderately firm, 1 ft. long, 2–2 1/2 in. broad at the middle, glabrous above, finely pubescent all over beneath, narrowed gradually to the base, sessile on the sheath; ligule small. Peduncles short, 2–3-flowered; bracts oblong, obtuse, brown, scariose, the upper 1 1/2 in. long. Corolla-lobes 2 in. long; upper oblong; lateral lanceolate. Lip obovate-cuneate, 2 in. broad, bright-coloured, much crisped towards the edge; anther-crest with an orbicular central lobe and two falcate lanceolate side-lobes. Fruit smooth, above 1 in. diam. Seeds ellipsoid, shining.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Muni River and Gaboon River, Mann, 1904!Niger Upper Guinea Old Calabar, Milne.
