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Etlingera hemisphaerica; photograph (c) 黃美滿, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) 黃美滿, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-06-05

Etlingera hemisphaerica (Blume) R.M.Sm.

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Zingiberaceae · Jawa, Sumatera

No habitat climate
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Etlingera hemisphaerica, photograph (c) Robin White, some rights reserved (CC BY)Etlingera hemisphaerica, photograph (c) 黃美滿, some rights reserved (CC BY)Etlingera hemisphaerica, photograph (c) 黃美滿, some rights reserved (CC BY)Etlingera hemisphaerica, photograph Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia CommonsEtlingera hemisphaerica, photograph Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia CommonsEtlingera hemisphaerica, photograph Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons 16 photographs ›

Summary

Etlingera hemisphaerica is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by Carl Ludwig von Blume, and got its current name by Rosemary Margaret Smith. Etlingera hemisphaerica is part of the genus Etlingera and the family Zingiberaceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Etlingera hemisphaerica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Etlingera

Etlingera is a genus of Indo-Pacific herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, consisting of more than 100 species found in tropical regions of Afro-Eurasia.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 14 of the 16 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJawa, Sumatera · 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).
Map marker-6.59, 106.791 · in the densest population, 10 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 15 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 10 km away. 9 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 16 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Robin White, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) 黃美滿, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Etlingera 10 in the reference

Etlingera calophrys Zingiberaceae Etlingera coccinea Etlingera coccinea Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Sharon ReidEtlingera corneri Etlingera corneri Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Brocken InagloryEtlingera elatior Etlingera elatior Torch-ginger Photo: CC BY, Tom HeijnenEtlingera fimbriobracteata Etlingera fimbriobracteata Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Paul Prior Etlingera heliconiifolia Zingiberaceae Etlingera littoralis Etlingera littoralis Earth Ginger Photo: CC0, author not stated Etlingera polycarpa Zingiberaceae Etlingera venusta Etlingera venusta Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Jake Rehage Etlingera yunnanensis Zingiberaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Alpinia hemisphaerica; Amomum anthoidioides; Amomum eriocarpum; Amomum hemisphaericum; Cardamomum anthodiodes and 16 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
(Blume) R.M.Sm.
Native to
Jawa, Sumatera
Wild records
16 in range · 15 open

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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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