Hellwigia papuana (Scheff.) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen, 2025

Senjaya, Seni Kurnia, Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Ardiyani, Marlina & Cronk, Quentin C. B., 2025, Reinstatement of Hellwigia Warb. (Zingiberaceae) and its molecular and morphological delimitation, PhytoKeys 261, pp. 233-273 : 233-273

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.261.151948
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16928197
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9D04C1B8-B704-5651-828B-582E653D1658
treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Hellwigia papuana (Scheff.) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen
status	comb. nov.

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Hellwigia papuana (Scheff.) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen comb. nov.

Alpinia papuana Scheff. View in CoL , Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 1: 56 1876 (Basionym). Alpinia gigantea var. papuana (Scheff.) Valeton View in CoL in Nova Guinea 8: 943 1913. Type: Indonesia. West Papua: Sorong , J. E. Teijsmann s. n. (Sept 1871) (lectotype: designated by Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 34 (2): 161 1975, BO n. v.) .

Alpinia eustales K. Schum. View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 27: 288 1899. Type: Indonesia. West Papua, O. Beccari 251 (lectotype: designated by Cecchi et al. Plant Biosyst. 156 (3): 783 2022. FI! [ FI 008307 ])

Notes.

As no collection of H. papuana is available, A. eustales , placed in synonymy by Smith (1975), remains tentative. We disagree with Schumann (1904) in placing A. collosea as a synonym of A. papuana ; instead, here we place it in synonymy with H. nutans .