Accession Data:
Aframomum melegueta K.Schum.
- Common Name: Grains of Paradise
- Family: Zingiberaceae Lindley
- Country of Origin: W. Trop. Africa to Angola
- Habitat: Shady sites in damp soil in forests
- Description: Herbaceous perennial herb producing tufted stems 1 - 4 metres tall from a rhizomatous rootstock. 4
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201900113
- Source: Kress Collection, SI#2009063
- Provenance:
Collector# s.n. Miller, E. Ghana: near Atebubu The complete IPEN-number of this accession is GH-0-BONN-4971. Dr. Wolfram Lobin,; Kustos/Curator, Botanische Garten der Universitat Bonn plant given to U.S. Bot. Garden 15 June 2016
- Accession Date: 07-10-2019
- Bench: 3313 - NEOB: Blue Tanks North
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 03-15-2024
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Zingiberaceae
- SubFamily: Alpinioideae
- Tribe: Alpinieae
- SubTribe:
References (internal):
- Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
- Medicinal Plants
- Medicinal Plants - Traditional African Medicine
- Spice Plants
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Gambia, The / Ghana / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Nigeria / Sierra Leone / Togo / Cameroon / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Zaire / Angola /
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- J.D.D. Tamokou, A.T. Mbaveng, V. Kuete, Chapter 8 - Antimicrobial Activities of African Medicinal Spices and Vegetables in Medicinal Spices and Vegetables from Africa, 2017. Last accessed on Friday, 24 May, 2019.
- Useful Tropical Plants. Last accessed on Friday, 14 June, 2019.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Inna Moody / Flickr user: innamoo ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/moodyworld/ ). [CC BY]. Last accessed on Friday, 10 January, 2020.
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