Chinese botanists have discovered a new species of purple lip ginger in Yunnan

, China, December 9 (Reporter Hu Yuanhang) reporter 9 from China
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center was informed that the center's plant diversity and conservation research team in Xinping, Yunnan found a new species of ginger plant: purple lip ginger. The findings were published in the international academic journal Annales Botanici Fennici.
genus is affiliated with The Ginger Family, and there are about 150 species recorded today, widely distributed in tropical, subtropical Asia. There are about 54 species recorded in China, which is the main distribution center of ginger plants. Ginger plants are easily identifiable because of their characteristics of a herb-like drug compartment and leaf pillow.
2018, researchers collected the ginger plant during a plant survey in Xinping, Yunnan Province. Through detailed specimen pairing, literature review, and anatomical examination of similar species. It was eventually identified as a new species of ginger plant, named purple lip ginger because of its fuchsia lip flaps.
the leaf tongue, with a semi-circular to inverted lip flap similar to hairy ginger. But purple-lip ginger is a 1.5-2.5-meter-high habit, with crimson to pale yellow slivers, tawny crown cleavages, and fuchsia lip flaps, significantly different from hairy ginger.