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Image Title: Alpinia, the largest genus in the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), being pollinated a bees
Image Credit: W. J. Kress, United States National Herbarium
AJB Editor: Judy Jernstedt, University of California - Davis
Intended End User: Teacher, Student
License Details: BSA - Terms for Image Use
Copyright held by: Kress, BSA
Date Created: 1/1/2005
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Alpinia, the largest genus in the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), is primarily pollinated by bees. At the Cai Yung Hu Reserve in Yunnan, China, the single anther of each flower of A. blepharocalyx deposits pollen on the back of the Bombus pollinators as they enter the flowers to take nectar. Alpinia as currently defined includes six polyphyletic clades in the tribe Alpinieae.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

The molecular phylogeny of Alpinia (Zingiberaceae): a complex and polyphyletic genus of gingers

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