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Alpinia vittata W.Bull

Variegate-ginger

Zingiberaceae · Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Is. · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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About the genus · Alpinia

Alpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropical and subtropical climates. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alpinia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Alpinia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “rhizomatous geophyte”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Alpinia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “rhizomatous geophyte”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeBismarck Archipelago, Solomon Is. · introduced: Thailand, Fiji, Dominican Republic, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 37 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Alpinia 42 in the reference

Alpinia aquatica Alpinia aquatica Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, John WittonAlpinia arundelliana Alpinia arundelliana Dwarf ginger Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney Alpinia brevilabris Zingiberaceae Alpinia breviligulata Zingiberaceae Alpinia caerulea Alpinia caerulea Native Ginger Photo: CC BY, Martin Hannan-JonesAlpinia calcarata Alpinia calcarata Indian Ginger Photo: CC BY, Paulmathi VinodAlpinia chinensis Alpinia chinensis Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Aaron ListonAlpinia conchigera Alpinia conchigera Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Brandon SeahAlpinia flabellata Alpinia flabellata Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Weiting LiuAlpinia formosana Alpinia formosana Zingiberaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAlpinia galanga Alpinia galanga Greater galangal Photo: CC BY, Kiwi ShenAlpinia hainanensis Alpinia hainanensis Hainan Galangal Photo: CC BY, olmagon all 43 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Alpinia albo-lineata; Alpinia sanderae; Alpinia tricolor; Guillainia vittata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
W.Bull
Native to
Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Is.
Wild records
none in range · 37 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 17 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (13 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 3 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 22 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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