Hellwigia divaricata (Valeton) 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.16928124
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/748742CF-683D-5BA8-8B24-40115E91578F
treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Hellwigia divaricata (Valeton) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Hellwigia divaricata (Valeton) Senjaya & A. D. Poulsen comb. nov.

Alpinia divaricata Valeton View in CoL , Nova Guinea 8: 950 1913 (Basionym). Type: Indonesia. Papua, G. M. Versteeg 1657 (lectotype: designated here, L! [ L 0360111–114 ]; isolectotypes: BO! [Sheet No. BO-0080573–575 ], K! [ K 000292447–448 ]) .

Alpinia kermesina Ridl. View in CoL , Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9: 214 1916. Type: Indonesia. Papua: Mount Carstensz, Camp III , C. B. Kloss s. n. Dec-Jan [1912–1913] (lectotype: designated by Smith, Edin. J. Bot. 47 (1): 48 1990, K! [ K 000292445 ]; isolectotype: BM! [ BM 014605305 ]) .

Notes.

We designated the lectotype of H. divaricata due to the superior quality of the L duplicate. Regarding H. kermesina, Smith (1990 a) lectotypified C. B. Kloss’s collection from Camp III at K, and here we add the isolectotype that we found at BM.