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Alpinia purpurata

Plant photographs and field observations.

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Species notes

About Alpinia purpurata

Alpinia purpurata (also recorded as Red Ginger) is an accepted species in the family Zingiberaceae, within the order Zingiberales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Vanuatu, Assam, and Bangladesh. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.

Common name
Red Ginger
Family
Zingiberaceae
Order
Zingiberales
Identification rank
Species
Recorded distribution
Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Vanuatu, Assam, Bangladesh

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy