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Hedychium yunnanense; photograph (c) Jiao Sun (孙娇), some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Jiao Sun (孙娇), some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2020-07-25

Hedychium yunnanense Gagnep.

Zingiberaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +2

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Hedychium yunnanense, photograph peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHedychium yunnanense, photograph peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHedychium yunnanense, photograph peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHedychium yunnanense, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHedychium yunnanense, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHedychium yunnanense, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 13 photographs ›

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. 33 of the 35 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.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Myanmar, Vietnam · 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 marker27.741, 98.666 · in the densest population, 10 records (29% of those in range)
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 35 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 19 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 59 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 33 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 35 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: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

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 greenii Hedychium greenii Zingiberaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedHedychium horsfieldii Hedychium horsfieldii Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt Stüber all 18 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
Gagnep.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Myanmar +1
Wild records
35 in range · 19 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; 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
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 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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