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Etlingera tubilabrum A.D.Poulsen (E00643279)

CETAF ID: http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00643279
Catalogue Number: E00643279
Scientific Name: Etlingera tubilabrum A.D.Poulsen
Collector Number: 2669
Family: Zingiberaceae
Genus: Etlingera
Species: tubilabrum
Field Notes: Terrestrial herb in loose clump (to 25 cm between neighbouring shoots). Leafy shoot to 5.2 m long. Base of leafy shoot to 7 cm diam., reddish green. Sheath yellow-green. Ligule to 1 cm long, hidden by clasping leaf bases, pale yellow-green. Lamina to 120 x 22 cm, mid-green above; pale green beneath; base auriculate, lobes clasping the pseudostem. Inflorescence from rhizome. Peduncle ascending to erect, to 25 cm long; scales pale brown, margin reddish brown. Spike 7-11 x 4 cm. Bracts pale reddish brown, rigid. Fertile bracts: lower similar to sterile bracts; upper creamish brown, pale brown at apex, mucronate. Calyx cream, apex pale reddish. Corolla white, lobes pale yellow. Filament white. Anther pale brown. Stigma white. Fully developed infructescence head to 23 x 12 cm, ovoid to narrowly ovoid. Fruit 3.5 x 3 cm, with two lateral nobs, bract persistent, calyx persistent, adpressed. Vernacular name: tikala (Kulawi language). Taste of centre of leafy shoot base: pine.
Country: Indonesia
State/Province: Sulawesi Tengah
Locality: Indonesia:Central Sulawesi [Sulawesi Tengah]:Trail from Sidaonta to Danau Lindu, c. 900 m E of Sidaonta.