Two new species of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar

Vinita Gowda1, W John Kress, Thet Htun

  • 1Dept. of Botany, MRC-166, P. O Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-0712, USA.

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|July 13, 2012
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