Rare turquoise gem #ginger #plant species described in @phytokeys.pensoft.net
See: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.272.171221
Long-term collaboration between @thebotanics.bsky.social and Indonesian botanical institutions resulted in the discovery of #Hellwigia opalina only found in #Sulawesi, Indonesia.

#gingerplantoftheweek is #marantaceae #Calathea (currently placed in #Goeppertia but is it correct?) inocephala that has a white, oil-rich elaiosome below the bluish seeds facilitating ant dispersal. #neotropicalplants

Zingiber not Etlingera

Cheilocostus speciosus
Etlingera pyramidosphaera

This is the neotropical #Costus comosus var. bakeri (#Costaceae; leaves arranged in a ‘spiral staircase’) whereas #Etlingera belongs to the family #Zingiberaceae where the leaves typically are distichous.

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Etlingera megalocheilos
Do you agree that ‘flame ginger’ is a good English name for these neat-ground flowering species of Etlingera?

#gingerplantoftheweek is #Etlingera hemisphaerica #etlingerahemisphaerica described by Carl Ludwig von Blume in 1827 and native in the #FloraOfJava. This particular plant was flowering in the campus of University of Indonesia, Fakultas MIPA, Java.

E. corneri named in honour of British botanist, Edred J. H. Corner (1906–1996).