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Roscoea cautleyoides Gagnep.

Zingiberaceae · China South-Central

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Roscoea cautleyoides, photograph (c) Ryan McMinds, some rights reserved (CC BY)Roscoea cautleyoides, photograph (c) Ryan McMinds, some rights reserved (CC BY)Roscoea cautleyoides, photograph Peter coxhead, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsRoscoea cautleyoides, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsRoscoea cautleyoides, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsRoscoea cautleyoides, photograph Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 14 photographs ›

Summary

Roscoea cautleyoides is a perennial herbaceous plant occurring in the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. The scientific name is also spelt Roscoea cautleoides (see below). Most members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), to which it belongs, are tropical, but R. cautleyoides, like other species of Roscoea, grows in much colder mountainous regions. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Roscoea cautleyoides", 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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 29 of the 30 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 · 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 marker26.933, 100.25 · in the densest population, 28 records (93% of those in range)
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 30 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 25 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 9 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 29 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 30 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) Ryan McMinds, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Peter coxhead, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Roscoea 10 in the reference

Roscoea alpina Roscoea alpina Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyRoscoea auriculata Roscoea auriculata Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossRoscoea capitata Roscoea capitata Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQRoscoea humeana Roscoea humeana Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, peganum from Small Dole, England Roscoea praecox Zingiberaceae Roscoea purpurea Roscoea purpurea Kakoli ginger Photo: CC BY, Jagdish Singh NegiRoscoea schneideriana Roscoea schneideriana Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Motohiro SunouchiRoscoea scillifolia Roscoea scillifolia Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, User:BotBlnRoscoea tibetica Roscoea tibetica Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Motohiro SunouchiRoscoea wardii Roscoea wardii Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Leonora (Ellie) Enking from East…

Names & registers

Also known as Roscoea capitata var. purpurata; Roscoea cautleyoides f. atropurpurea; Roscoea cautleyoides f. sinopurpurea; Roscoea cautleyoides var. purpurea; Roscoea chamaeleon and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
Gagnep.
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
30 in range · 25 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds 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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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