Hellwigia gigantea (Blume) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen, 2025

Senjaya, Seni Kurnia, Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Ardiyani, Marlina & Cronk, Quentin C. B., 2025, Reinstatement of Hellwigia Warb. (Zingiberaceae) and its molecular and morphological delimitation, PhytoKeys 261, pp. 233-273 : 233-273

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.261.151948
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16928136
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C10962CA-40C3-505C-A561-AF35710F0F7A
treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Hellwigia gigantea (Blume) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Hellwigia gigantea (Blume) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen comb. nov.

Alpinia gigantea Blume View in CoL , Enum. pl. Javae 59 1827 (Basionym). Type: Indonesia. Moluccas: Ternate , C. G. C. Reinwardt s. n. (lectotype: designated by Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 35: 206 1977, L! [ L 0360113–114 ]; isolectotype: E! [ E 00149605 ]) .

Alpinia myriocratera K. Schum. View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 27: 290 1899. Type: Indonesia. Moluccas: Ternate , O. Beccari s. n. (November 1874) (lectotype: designated by Cecchi et al. Plant Biosyst. 156 (3): 783 2022. FI! [ FI 008314 ]) .

Notes.

Smith (1990 a) listed A. myriocratera as an accepted species, whereas here we consider it a synonym. In an unpublished manuscript, however, Smith reached the same conclusion.