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Hedychium greenii; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-08-04

Hedychium greenii W.W.Sm.

Zingiberaceae · Assam, East Himalaya

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About the genus · Hedychium

Hedychium [ha-DEE-kee-um] is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, native to lightly wooded habitats in Asia. There are approximately 70-80 known species, native to India, Southeast Asia, and Madagascar. Some species have become widely naturalized in other lands, and considered invasive in some places.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hedychium", 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.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAssam, East Himalaya · introduced: Hawaii · 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“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 35 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.

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Photographs: (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Hedychium 17 in the reference

Hedychium boloveniorum Zingiberaceae Hedychium bousigonianum Zingiberaceae Hedychium coccineum Hedychium coccineum Red ginger lily Photo: CC BY, EliHedychium coronarium Hedychium coronarium White garland-lily Photo: CC0, author not statedHedychium densiflorum Hedychium densiflorum Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossHedychium ellipticum Hedychium ellipticum Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, chintan shethHedychium flavescens Hedychium flavescens Yellow ginger Photo: CC BY, Christopher HynesHedychium flavum Hedychium flavum Zingiberaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot Hedychium forrestii Zingiberaceae Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Kahili ginger Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaHedychium horsfieldii Hedychium horsfieldii Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt Stüber Hedychium longicornutum White ginger all 18 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
W.W.Sm.
Native to
Assam, East Himalaya
Wild records
2 in range · 2 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 (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 nothing to reportasked 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
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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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