Taxon: Alpinia purpurata (Vieill.) K. Schum.

Common names:

• red-ginger   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• röd galangarot   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3; Hortscience 32:914. 1997)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [mentions].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Luc-Cayol, F. & L. Fereol. 1997. ×Alpingera martinica (Zingiberaceae): an intergeneric hybrid between Alpinia purpurata and Etlingera elatior. HortScience 32:914–915.
• Newman, M. et al. 2004. Checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Malesia. Blumea Suppl. 16:28.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Smith, R. M. 1990. Alpinia (Zingiberaceae): a proposed new infrageneric classification. Edinburgh J. Bot. 47:55.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Alpinia purpurata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Alpinia purpurata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Alpinia purpurata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Guillainia purpurata Vieill. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Alpinia purpurata (Vieill.) K. Schum.:

• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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