ETLINGERA TJIASMANTOI (ZINGIBERACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM CENTRAL SULAWESI

Marlina Ardiyani (Herbarium Bogoriense Botany Division Research Center for Biology)
Wisnu Handoyo Ardi (Research Centre for Plant Conservation and Botanic Gardens, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 13 Bogor 16122, Indonesia.)
Wahyudi Santoso (Herbarium Bogoriense, Botany Division, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jln. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia.)
Axel Dalberg Poulsen (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland.)

REINWARDTIA
Vol 19, No 2 (2020): Vol.19 No.2

ARDIYANI, M., ARDI, W. H., SANTOSO, W. & POULSEN, A. D.  2020.  Etlingera tjiasmantoi (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Central Sulawesi. Reinwardtia 19(2): 103‒108. ‒‒ A new species of Etlingera, Etlingera tjiasmantoi Ardiyani & Ardi, was discovered at Tentena, Central Sulawesi, and is described here. This species resembles Etlingera flexuosa A.D.Poulsen and Etlingera mamasarum A.D.Poulsen & Ardiyani but differs from both in having thecae dehiscing through their entire length and in the obovoid, glabrous and spineless fruits. The DNA barcode data, the line drawings of flower and fruit and the plate of E. tjiasmantoi were presented.