Family:
Costaceae Nakai

Tapeinochilos Miq.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Maluku to N. Queensland.

Native to:

Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland

Tapeinochilos Miq. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sands [690], Papua New Guinea 29047.051 No
Willis, F.R. [138], Indonesia 70000.184 No

First published in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 4: 101 (1869)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Poulsen, A.D., Gideon, O.G. & Ardiyani, M. (2010). Names of Tapeinochilos (Costaceae) in Wallacea Blumea 55: 61-64.

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0