Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Zingiber zerumbet
Collector Name:
Diane Ragone
Collection Date:
June 21, 2001
Observers:
Cynthia Nazario, Matisse Clyde, & Sani Fa'afuata
Island Group:
SAMOAN ISLANDS
Locality:
Behind Olosega Village. Transect 2B. Heading 344 NNW.
Plant Description:
Clumping ginger with creeping, slightly aromatic rhizome, ovoid terminal inflorescence on a leafless stalk with white fragrant flowers subtended by green bracts that turn red when mature.
Ethnobotanical Notes:
Mucilaginous liquid used for shampoo.
Associated Species:
Canopy of Artocarpus altilis, Cocos nucifera, with bananas Musa x paradisica, Manihot esculenta, Colocasia esculenta, Alocasia macrorrhiza, few Pandanus tectorius, Bischofia javonica, Clerodendrum buchanii, Dioscorea bulbifera, numverous Epipermnum pinnatum, Christella harveyi, Nephrolepis hirsutula, Synedrella nodiflora, Oplismenus compositus, and Mikania micrantha. Seedlings and juveniles of Morinda citrifolia, Dysoxylum samoense, and Ficus scabra.
Date of Record Creation:
April 14, 2013
Date of Last Update:
August 6, 2023
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