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Accession Data:

Renealmia thyrsoidea (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl.

  • Common Name: Renealmia
  • Family: Zingiberaceae Lindley
  • Synonym(s): Amomum thyrsoideum Ruiz & Pav.

  • Country of Origin: Costa Rica to Trinidad and W. South America

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900298
  • Source: Shawn McCourt - Marie Selby BG
  • Provenance: 
    Division of MSBG 2010-0267A

Grown from seed collected from a cultivated plant in Moyobamaba, Peru in 2010.
  • Accession Date: 09-04-2019
  • Bench: 3211 - ZING:Research Curcuma
    • Currently: active - marginal (no foliage)
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 06-18-2020

Classification:

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

References (internal):

  • Medicinal Plants
  • Edible Plants
  • Bird Pollination (ornithophily)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Costa Rica / Panama / Trinidad-Tobago / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil North

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, 04 September, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, 04 September, 2019.
  3. Useful Tropical Plants. Last accessed on Wednesday, 04 September, 2019.
  4. Cabanillas BJ et al, Leischmanicidal compounds and potent PPARy activators from Renealmia thyrsoidea (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl., J Ethnopharmacol. 2014 Nov 18;157:149-55. Last accessed on Wednesday, 04 September, 2019.
  5. Images #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia [CC BY-SA]. Last accessed on Friday, 31 January, 2020.

data regenerated on Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:42:30 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Renealmia thyrsoidea

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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
  • Renealmia thyrsoidea
  • 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 coccineum W/C
  • Hedychium ellipticum W/C
  • Hedychium forrestii W/C
  • Hedychium muluense
  • Hedychium rubrum
  • Hedychium thyrsiforme
  • Hedychium yungjiangense W/C
  • 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
  • Scaphochlamys kunstleri
  • 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 officinale
  • Zingiber roseum W/C
  • Zingiber spectabile
  • Zingiber thorelii W/C
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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