| Wurfbainia elegans | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Wurfbainia |
| Species: | W. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Wurfbainia elegans | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Amomum elegansRidl. | |
Wurfbainia elegans is a species of plant belonging to Zingiberaceae, the ginger family. It is endemic to the Philippines. [1]
The species is abundant in the secondary forest of Camp 7 Experimental Forest Station, Minglanilla, Cebu. The forest, with a relatively dry season from November to April, and wet season the rest of the year, is dominated by the plant species Sarcandra glabra , Artocarpus odoratissimus and Donax canniformis .
The Singapore-based English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley first described the species under the name Amomum elegans in 1906. The genus and species were revised in 2018 by the botanists Jana Škorničkova (born 1975) and Axel Dalberg Poulsen (born 1961, Danmark), in the journal Taxon . [2]
Zingiberaceae or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Many of the family's species are important ornamental, spice, or medicinal plants. Ornamental genera include the shell gingers (Alpinia), Siam or summer tulip, Globba, ginger lily (Hedychium), Kaempferia, torch-ginger Etlingera elatior, Renealmia, and ginger (Zingiber). Spices include ginger (Zingiber), galangal or Thai ginger, melegueta pepper, myoga, korarima, turmeric (Curcuma), and cardamom.
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Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula that led to a level of rapid deforestation, instrumental in the 1926 Great Flood. For the fervour with which he pursued this work he came to be known as "Mad Ridley".
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