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Zingiber macradenium; photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Zingiber macradenium K.Schum.

Zingiberaceae · Sumatera · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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About the genus · Zingiber

Zingiber is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. It is native to China, the Indian subcontinent, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia, especially Thailand. It contains the true gingers, plants grown the world over for their culinary value. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Zingiber in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Zingiber in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeSumatera · 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” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Photographs

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Photographs: Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); brewbooks from near Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Zingiber 16 in the reference

Zingiber chrysanthum Zingiber chrysanthum Zingiberaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedZingiber collinsii Zingiber collinsii Ginger Photo: CC BY, insect ID Zingiber gramineum Ginger Zingiber kawagoei Zingiberaceae Zingiber mekongense Zingiberaceae Zingiber mioga Zingiber mioga Mioga ginger Photo: CC BY, りなべるZingiber montanum Zingiber montanum Cassumunar ginger Photo: CC BY, Tournasol7Zingiber officinale Zingiber officinale Ginger Photo: CC BY, Greg III EsperaZingiber ottensii Zingiber ottensii Zingiberaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Zingiber papuanum Zingiberaceae Zingiber purpureum Cassumunar ginger Zingiber rubens Bengal ginger all 17 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Zingiberaceae
Described by
K.Schum.
Native to
Sumatera
Wild records
none in range

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 botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 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.

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