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Accession Data:

Aframomum angustifolium (Sonn.) K.Schum.

  • Common Name: Guinea Grains
  • Family: Zingiberaceae Lindley

  • Country of Origin: Trop. Africa, Madagascar

  • Description: Herbaceous perennial plant producing dense stands of leafy stems 1.5 - 4 metres tall from a tuberous rootstock.3

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900112
  • Source: Kress Collection, SI#1992039
  • Provenance:
    Kress# 92-3403
    Kress, W. J.
    Madagascar: Nosy Mangabe, 21-FEB-1992
    
  • Accession Date: 07-10-2019
  • Bench: 3206 - ZING:tbd
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 12-16-2022
  • Restrictions:

    Classification:

    • Division: Magnoliophyta
    • Class: Liliopsida
    • SubClass: commelinids
    • Order: Zingiberales
    • SubOrder:
    • Family: Zingiberaceae
    • SubFamily: Alpinioideae
    • Tribe: Alpinieae
    • SubTribe:

    References (internal):

    • Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
    • Edible Plants
    • Plants with Edible Fruits
    • Medicinal Plants
    • Fiber Plants
    • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Ghana / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Nigeria / Togo / Burundi / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Rwanda / Zaire / Ethiopia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Madagascar /

    References (external):

    1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
    2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
    3. Useful Tropical Plants. Last accessed on Friday, 14 June, 2019.
    4. IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Friday, 14 June, 2019.
    5. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Tuesday, 16 July, 2019.

    data regenerated on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:56:24 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

    Images:

    Aframomum angustifolium

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    Current Accessions in the Zingiberaceae

    Subfamily Alpinioideae
    Tribe Alpinieae

    • Aframomum angustifolium W/C
    • Aframomum melegueta W/C
    • Aframomum mala
    • Alpinia boninsimensis
    • Alpinia elegans
    • Alpinia galanga W/C
    • Alpinia latilabris
    • Alpinia maclurei
    • Alpinia malaccensis W/C
    • Alpinia nigra W/C
    • Alpinia oblongifolia
    • Alpinia pumila
    • Alpinia rugosa
    • Alpinia kwangsiensis
    • Alpinia roxburghii W/C
    • Alpinia zerumbet
    • Amomum petaloideum
    • Elettaria cardamomum
    • Elettariopsis aff. curtisii W/C
    • Elettariopsis smithiae W/C
    • Elettariopsis sp.
    • Etlingera sp. W/C
    • Siliquamomum tonkinense W/C
    • Wurfbainia testacea

    Subfamily Alpinioideae
    Tribe Riedelieae

    • Burbidgea schizocheila
    • Pleuranthodium schlechteri
    • Pleuranthodium schlechteri aff. W/C
    • Riedelia sp.
    • Siamanthus siliquosus W/C

    Subfamily Siphonochiloideae
    Tribe Siphonochileae

    • Siphonochilus kirkii

    Subfamily Zingiberoideae
    Tribe Globbeae

    • Gagnepainia thoreliana
    • Globba annamensis
    • Globba curtisii W/C
    • Globba kerrii W/C
    • Globba multiflora W/C
    • Globba orixensis W/C
    • Globba patens W/C
    • Globba radicalis W/C
    • Globba schomburgkii W/C
    • Globba unifolia
    • Globba arracanensis W/C
    • Globba marantina W/C
    • Globba marantina W/C
    • Globba pendula W/C
    • Globba pendula W/C
    • Globba winitii
    • Hemiorchis rhodorrhachis W/C

    Subfamily Zingiberoideae
    Tribe Zingibereae

    • Boesenbergia albomaculata W/C
    • Boesenbergia kingii W/C
    • Boesenbergia longiflora W/C
    • Boesenbergia maxwellii W/C
    • Boesenbergia pulcherrima W/C
    • Boesenbergia rotunda W/C
    • Curcuma aeruginosa W/C
    • Curcuma aff. elata
    • Curcuma attenuata W/C
    • Curcuma colorata
    • Curcuma comosa
    • Curcuma heyneana
    • Curcuma longa W/C
    • Curcuma petiolata W/C
    • Curcuma phaeocaulis W/C
    • Curcuma rubrobracteata W/C
    • Curcuma viridiflora W/C
    • Curcuma attenuta aff. W/C
    • Curcuma longa
    • Curcuma longa
    • Curcuma petiolata W/C
    • Curcuma singularis W/C
    • Distichochlamys rubrostriata W/C
    • Haniffia albiflora
    • Hedychium ellipticum W/C
    • Hedychium forrestii W/C
    • Hedychium muluense
    • Hedychium rubrum
    • Hedychium yunnanense W/C
    • Hedychium aff. flavescens
    • Hedychium coronarium
    • Hedychium gardnerianum
    • Hedychium greenii
    • Hedychium hasseltii
    • Hedychium horsfieldii
    • Hedychium longicornutum W/C
    • Kaempferia gilbertii
    • Kaempferia parviflora
    • Kaempferia rotunda W/C
    • Kaempferia Roscoeana
    • Kaempferia sp. Hieroglyphics
    • Larsenianthus careyanus
    • Larsenianthus wardianus W/C
    • Rhynchanthus beesianus W/C
    • Rhynchanthus longiflorus
    • Smithatris myanmarensis W/C
    • Stahlianthus involucratus
    • Stahlianthus involucratus W/C
    • Zingiber apiculata W/C
    • Zingiber corallinum W/C
    • Zingiber flavovirens W/C
    • Zingiber fragile W/C
    • Zingiber ligulatum W/C
    • Zingiber montanum W/C
    • Zingiber ottensii
    • Zingiber rubens W/C
    • Zingiber sulphureum W/C
    • Zingiber wrayi
    • Zingiber zerumbet
    • Zingiber aff. roseum W/C
    • Zingiber longibracteatum W/C
    • Zingiber longiligulatum W/C
    • Zingiber montanum W/C
    • Zingiber neesanum W/C
    • Zingiber roseum W/C
    • Zingiber spectabile
    • Zingiber thorelii W/C
    W/C = Wild Collected
    = indicates flowering in past 14 days
    = images available for this accession
    = map available for this accession
    = accession added within past 90 days
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