Hedychium philipinense k.schum.

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Description:
Herbaceous plants with ‘pseudostems’ formed by leaf sheaths; rhizomatous. Mainly epiphytic or lithophytic. Leaves sessile, alternate on the pseudostem, oblong, up to 20⎼47 cm long, 8⎼12 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broad and clasping. Flowers creamy-white to light yellow, in short terminal inflorescence, 2 from the axils of the bracts; fruits 3-angular, c. 3⎼4 cm long, bright orange, dehiscent, with dark red seeds.


References:
Fernando, E.S., V.B. Amoroso, D.N. Tandang, C.I. Banag, A.B. Lapis, W.S. Gruèzo, F.P. Coritico, F.A. Pollisco Jr., A.M. Palijon, M.D. Ching, F.P. Lansigan, C. Garcia-Francisco, N.M. Lita, A.M. Tagtag, & J.L. De Leon. 2021. Threatened Plants of the Philippines. 147p. Biodiversity Management Bureau, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Quezon City, Philippines. ISBN 978-621-96498-0-3.
Pelser, P.B., J.F. Barcelona, & D.L. Nickrent (eds.). 2011 onwards. Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippines. http://www.philippineplants.org.
Tandang, D.N., E.R. Tadiosa, & A.P. Andres. 2014. A Pictorial Handbook on Peat Swamp Flora of Agusan Marsh. Peat Swamp Forest Project, IFAD/GEF EU Funded, 2014. 329p. Biodiversity and Management Bureau (BMB-DENR) and National Museum of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines.
Tobias, A.B., P.L. Malabrigo Jr., A.G.A. Umali, G.T. Eduarte, A.B. Mohagan, & N.P. Mendez. 2019. Taxonomy, recollection and conservation of newly discovered populations of Hedychium philippinense (Zingiberaceae): an endemic and threatened species in the Philippines. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 8(1): 88–92.

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