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Alpinia purpurata
(Zingiberaceae)
red ginger

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Species description or overview

Alpinia purpurata information from PIER
Information on Alpinia purpurata as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

ITIS nomenclature info for Alpinia purpurata
Nomenclatural information about Alpinia purpurata is provided by ITIS.

Impacts

Alpinia purpurata (Zingiberaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Alpinia purpurata as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Images

Images of Alpinia purpurata (Zingiberaceae) (red ginger)
Links to high-resolution free images of Alpinia purpurata (Zingiberaceae) (red ginger) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Alpinia purpurata information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands  new posting 
Information about Alpinia purpurata in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Alpinia purpurata images from PIER
Images of Alpinia purpurata provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Distribution

Alpinia purpurata information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands  new posting 
Information about Alpinia purpurata in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.

Books

A field guide to tropical and subtropical plants
Perry, Frances and Roy Hay. 1982. A field guide to tropical and subtropical plants. Ward Lock Limited, Great Britain. 136 pp. illus. ISBN: 0-442-26859-9.

Full-text articles

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Sherley, Greg (ed.) . 2000. Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. Apia, Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. ISBN: 982-04-0214-X.

Bibliography

References for Alpinia purpurata
Bibliographic references for Alpinia purpurata are provided by HEAR.

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