Identification of Zingiberaceae genus : 1 image.
kindly help in the identification of the Zingiberaceae genus collected from Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Looks like something new !
Rhynchanthus sp.
I was also guessing the same genus but could not find any match since only one sp.,
Rhynchanthus longiflorus Hook.f. has got distribution in India but does not look like a match.
Only 4 sp. given in POWO, CoL and one more sp. Rhynchanthus wiesemannianus Loes. & Schltr.
is given in GBIF and IPNI. Among them, only Rhynchanthus johnianus Schltr. has got a slight
match, but not completely.
Thank you sir for digging in deeper into this. I did check as well and couldn’t find the match. Just as sabu sir said it could be a novel one. Additionally the species is an epiphyte with a healthy population.
