Taxon: Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig

Common names:

• butterfly-ginger   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• butterfly-lily   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• cinnamon-jasmine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• garland-flower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• garland-flowers   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• ginger-lily   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• white ginger-lily   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• white-ginger   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• witgemmerlelie   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Bothalia; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• widely cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kool, A. et al. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Lao PDR (on-line resource).
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Smith, R. M. 1998. FSA contributions: 11. Zingiberaceae. Bothalia 28:38. [naturalized].
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hedychium coronarium.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Hedychium coronarium.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hedychium coronarium.

Check other web resources for Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Hedychium coronarium cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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