Wurfbainia uliginosa

Wurfbainia uliginosa[1] is the type species of the recently reconstituted plant genus Wurfbainia[2] in the ginger family. Its native range is from Indo-China to Sumatra.[3]

Wurfbainia uliginosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Subfamily: Alpinioideae
Tribe: Alpinieae
Genus: Wurfbainia
Species:
W. uliginosa
Binomial name
Wurfbainia uliginosa
(J.Koenig) Giseke
Synonyms
  • Amomum ovoideum Pierre ex Gagnep.
  • Amomum robustum K.Schum.
  • Amomum uliginosum J.Koenig
  • Cardamomum uliginosum (J.Koenig) Kuntze

References
  1. Giseke (1792) Praelectiones in Ordines Naturales Plantarum 199.
  2. de Boer H, Newman, M, Poulsen AD, Droop AJ, Fér T, Hiên LTT, Hlavatá K, Lamxay V, Richardson JF, Steffen K, Leong-Škorničková J (2018) Convergent morphology in Alpinieae (Zingiberaceae): Recircumscribing Amomum as a monophyletic genus. Taxon 67(1): 6-36.
  3. POWO: Wurfbainia uliginosa (J.Koenig) Giseke (retrieved 15 July 2020)
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