Phaeomeria
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Read about Phaeomeria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Phaeomeria (Greek, dark and part). Zingiberaceae. Perennial herbs from a thick rhizome, grown in hothouse for their foliage and fls. Flowering sts. separate from the leafy ones; the latter not rarely tall, sometimes gigantic and forming very dense reed-like thickets; the former everywhere smaller although sometimes about 3 ft.: lvs. distichous, often numerous, rather large, provided with a commonly leathery ligule: fls. sessile, in spikes or heads, often large or very large, either broad-pyramidal or subglobose, rarely concave at the top, surrounded commonly by a rather large involucre composed of colored bracts, the flowering bracts smaller and less intensely colored; calyx tubular or subclavate, frequently deeply split on one side, often very short-acuminate or not at all lobulate at the top; corolla-tube narrowly cylindrical, dilated toward the top; the lobes narrow, subspatulate, subequal: caps, or rather berries massed together somewhat resembling a pineapple.—About 16 species. Ceylon, to New Guinea. Phaeomeria was formerly included in Amomum but is now considered a distinct genus.' P. magnifica, Schumann (Alpinia magnifica, Roscoe. Amomum magnificum. Benth & Hook, f.), is described under Amomum. See Vol. I, p. 275. F. Tracy Hubbard. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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