Abstract
The Eastern Regional Centre of Botanical Survey of India at Shillong has a herbarium whose acronym or code is ASSAM. The herbarium harbours about 1,50,000 specimens of angiosperms, gymnosperms and pteridophytes collected from different parts of northeastern India. This present communication deals with the representative herbarium specimens of the family Zingiberaceae housed in ASSAM, which includes about 100-year old collections as well as specimens collected during the recent periods from different parts of northeastern India. A careful consultation/indexing of voucher specimens of Zingiberaceae revealed that the ASSAM has a total of 1,080 herbarium sheets belong to 110 species under 19 genera. Furthermore, ASSAM has about 80 type specimens representing names of 21 new species under 6 genera. The current scientific name and distributional pattern of each species are provided.
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