Aframomum exscapum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae.[1] It was first described by John Sims and got its current name from Frank Nigel Hepper.[2]
| Aframomum exscapum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Aframomum |
| Species: | A. exscapum
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| Binomial name | |
| Aframomum exscapum Hepper
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Its Susu name is dadigogo.[3] Another name is balancounfa. It was described in 1891 by Edouard Heckel, who wrongly attributed to it the name of Ceratanthera Beaumetzi.[4]
References
edit- ^ Hepper, 1967 In: Kew Bull. 21: 133
- ^ Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A.; Didžiulis V., eds. (2014). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ H. Pobéguin, Essai sur la flore de la Guinée Francaise, Paris, ed. Augustin Challamel, 1906, p. 326.
- ^ Edouard Heckel, Contribution à l'étude de l'état cléistogamique. Sur le Dadi-go ou Balancounfa (Ceratanthera Beaumetzi Ed. Heckel). Plante nouvelle cléistogame et distopique, usitée come tænifuge sur la côte occidentale de l'Afrique tropicale, Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille, t. 1, 1891, p. 19-46
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