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Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Alpinia officinarum is a perennial herb, 40cm to 110cm high: the underground rhizome is long and transverse, cylindrical. Leaves 2-row, leaf blade linear, 20-30 cm long, 1.2-2.5 cm wide, apical tail tip, base attenuate, both surfaces and leaf margin glabrous, sessile; ligule membranous, lanceolate, 2-3 cm long, sometimes up to 5 cm, not 2-lobed. Flowering from April to September; racemes terminal, erect, 6-10 cm long, inflorescence rachis tomentose, bracteoles very small, not more than 1 mm long; small

Alpinia officinarum is a perennial herb, 40cm to 110cm high: the underground rhizome is long and transverse, cylindrical. Leaves 2-row, leaf blade linear, 20-30 cm long, 1.2-2.5 cm wide, apical tail tip, base attenuate, both surfaces and leaf margin glabrous, sessile; ligule membranous, lanceolate, 2-3 cm long, sometimes up to 5 cm, not 2-lobed. Flowering from April to September; racemes terminal, erect, 6-10 cm long, inflorescence rachis tomentose, bracteoles very small, not more than 1 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long; calyx tube tip 3-toothed Corolla tube slightly shorter than calyx tube, lobes 3, oblong, ca. 1.5 cm, posterior 1 cucullate, labellum oblong-ovate, ca. 2 cm long, white with red stripes, stamens 1, filaments ca. 1 cm, anthers ca. 6 mm; ovary densely tomentose. Capsule globose, ca. 1 cm in diam. Orange when ripe. Born in hillside grasslands or under sparse forests and bushes. Distributed in our province and Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Taiwan and other provinces and regions. Wild or cultivated.

 
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