François Gagnepain was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain.
Renealmia is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America. In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indigenous medical treatments for leishmania and malaria In Colombia, it is used to treat snakebite. Bracts and leaves can serve as phytotelmata, retaining small quantities of water that offer habitat for other organisms.
Sarcophrynium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae indigenous to tropical Africa. It was described as a genus in 1902.
Maranta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to tropical Central and South America and the West Indies. Maranta was named for Bartolomeo Maranta, an Italian physician and botanist of the sixteenth century.
Halopegia is a genus of plants native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, and tropical southeast Asia. Three species are recognized as of April 2014:
Stachyphrynium is a genus of plants native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. It was first described as a genus with this name in 1902.
Hornstedtia is a genus of plants in the Zingiberaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, southern China, New Guinea, Melanesia and Queensland.
Boesenbergia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains more than 90 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.
Pommereschea is a genus of plants in the ginger family. There are two known species, native to China and Indochina:
Schlechterella is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Africa, found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
Aframomum arundinaceum is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by Daniel Oliver and Daniel Hanbury. It received its current name from Karl Moritz Schumann. Aframomum arundinaceum is part of the genus Aframomum and the family Zingiberaceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.
Aframomum alboviolaceum is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by Henry Nicholas Ridley, and got its current name from Karl Moritz Schumann. Aframomum alboviolaceum is part of the genus Aframomum and the family Zingiberaceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.
Aframomum alpinum is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by François Gagnepain, and given its current name by Karl Moritz Schumann. Aframomum alpinum is part of the genus Aframomum and the family Zingiberaceae.
Aframomum cereum is a monocotyledonous plant species in the family Zingiberaceae that was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker, and got its current name from Karl Moritz Schumann.
Aframomum citratum is a monocotyledonous plant species in the family Zingiberaceae that was first described by C. Pereira, and given its current name by Karl Moritz Schumann.
Aframomum kayserianum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann.
Aframomum luteoalbum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann.
Aframomum subsericeum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Daniel Oliver and Daniel Hanbury and renamed by Karl Moritz Schumann.
Aframomum mala is a species of flowering plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann and Adolf Engler, and was given its current name by Karl Moritz Schumann. It is a rhizomatous geophyte native to Tanzania.
Alpinia modesta is a plant in the Zingiberaceae. It was first described in 1904 by Ferdinand von Mueller.
