''Roscoea megalantha'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
in the ginger family
Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae () or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical ...
, native to Bhutan and India. It was formerly included within ''
Roscoea purpurea'', but it was described as a separate species in 2017.
Taxonomy
''Roscoea megalantha'' was first described as a separate species in 2017. Previously it had been treated as merely a white form (f. ''alba'') of ''Roscoea purpurea''.
Distribution
''Roscoea megalantha'' occurs in the eastern parts of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh in India from 1800 to 3500 m above sea level.
References
Flora of Bhutan
megalantha
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