法氏薑屬

Erect herbs. Leaves oblong, apex sharply long-caudate with a flagellate tip twisting, ligules reddish brown, entire, rounded. Inflorescences racemose, terminal on pseudostem, sometimes pendulous; bracts spathaceous, translucent-white with a brownish tip; bracteoles absent. Flowers pink to white, persistent and turning brown after anthesis; calyx 3-dentate; corolla tube shorter than calyx; lobes oblong; labellum connate to lateral petals as high as middle of labellum, free part split into two linear or subulate lobes, of which apex slightly bifid; filament channeled on the inside, enclosing style up to half length of filament, spirally coiled after anthesis; staminodes linear; nectaries absent; ovary 3-locular. Capsules ellipsoid or subglobose, glabrous, with faintly longitudinal costae, dehiscing into three divisions. Seeds many, form irregular.

Two species in the Philippines and Lanyu Is. One species in Taiwan.

Funakoshi, I. & H. Ohashi. 2000. Vanoverberghia sasakiana Funak. & H. Ohashi (Zingiberaceae), a new species and a new generic record for the flora of Taiwan. Taiwania 45(3): 270- 275.

Lower Taxon

• Vanoverberghia sasakiana Funakoshi & Ohashi