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Roscoea scillifolia (Gagnep.) Cowley

Zingiberaceae · China South-Central

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Summary

Roscoea scillifolia is a perennial herbaceous plant occurring in Yunnan in China. Most members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), to which it belongs, are tropical, but like other species of Roscoea, R. scillifolia grows in much colder mountainous regions. As of 2013, the species is only known in cultivation and may be extinct in the wild.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Roscoea scillifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 7 of the 7 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 marker27.5, 100.233 · in the densest population, 7 records (100% 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 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 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 7 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: User:BotBln, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

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 cautleyoides Roscoea cautleyoides Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Ryan McMindsRoscoea 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 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. scillifolia; Roscoea scillifolia f. atropurpurea; Roscoea yunnanensis var. scillifolia. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
(Gagnep.) Cowley
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
7 in range · 5 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 2026-10-227 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

Cultifolio

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