Costaceae
Tapeinochilos

Tapeinochilos ananassae (Hassk.) K.Schum.

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 27: 349 (1899)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Maluku to N. Queensland. It is a rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as a medicine, has social uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • 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.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jun 1, 1994 Binnendyek, S. [s.n.] Indonesia K000292279 Type Yes
{Baron von Mueller} [s.n.] Australia K002425539 Yes
[s.n.] K002425497 No
Utteridge, T.M.A.; Willis, F.R.; Johns, R.J.; Edwards, P.J.; Sutrisna; Hamzah; Puradyatmika, P. [60] Indonesia K002425516 No
van Royen, P.; Sleumer, H. [7059] Indonesia K002425512 No
Katik, P. [74963] Papua New Guinea K002425514 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425551 Yes
Utteridge, T.M.A.; Willis, F.R.; Johns, R.J.; Edwards, P.J.; Sutrisna; Hamzah; Puradyatmika, P. [60] Indonesia K002425515 No
Sands, M.J.S.; Johns, R.J.; Mogea, J.P.; Moeljono, S.; Warpur, M. [6269] Indonesia K002425518 No
[H 2823/66] K002425492 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425555 Yes
[s.n.] K002425496 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425553 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425556 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425554 Yes
Hyland, B.P.M. [7961] Australia K002425540 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425557 Yes
Croft, J.R. [61209] Papua New Guinea K002425517 No
[s.n.] K002425495 No
[s.n.] Malaysia K002425494 No
Moseley [s.n.] Papua New Guinea K002425511 No
[5741] Indonesia K002425493 No
s.coll. [74963] Papua New Guinea K002425513 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002425552 Yes
Tapeinochilos pungens K:SPC-29047.024 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0