Taxon: Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• cream-ginger   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• yellow ginger-lily   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• yellow-ginger   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• geelgemmerlelie   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• longoze   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.e.]; Nepal

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

References:

• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• 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.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Smith, R. M. 1998. FSA contributions: 11. Zingiberaceae. Bothalia 28:38. [naturalized].
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hedychium flavescens.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hedychium flavescens.

Check other web resources for Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe:

• 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Hedychium flavescens 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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