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Alpinia caerulea (native ginger)

Synonyms: Hellenia caerulea (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Alpinia caerulea, native ginger, is an understorey perennial herb to 3 m, growing under rainforest, gallery forest and wet sclerophyll forest canopy in eastern Australia. Leaves are up to 40 cm long and 3–10 cm wide. The inflorescence is 10–30 cm long. The blue capsule is globose 1 cm across, with a brittle outer covering containing black seed and white pulp.
View Wikipedia Record: Alpinia caerulea

Infraspecies

Alpinia caerulea var. caerulea
Alpinia caerulea var. coerulea

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Structure [2]  Herb

Predators

Echymipera rufescens australis (Rufous spiny bandicoot)[3]
Notocrypta waigensis (Banded Demon)[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Diet and Breeding of the Rufous Spiny Bandicoot Echymipera rufescens australis, Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, D.I. Shevill and C.N. Johnson, Australian Mammalogy 29: 169-175
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0