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Aframomum atewae is a little-studied wild ginger from West Africa, known from Liberia to southern Ghana. It is a rhizomatous plant of wet tropical forest and is not a common garden or houseplant, so its care is inferred from relatives.
Aframomum atewae is a monocotyledonous plant species described by John Michael Lock and J.B. Hall. Aframomum atewae is part of the genus Aframomum and the family Zingiberaceae.
The species' range is in Ghana. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.
Aframomum albiflorum · Aframomum alboviolaceum · Aframomum alpinum · Aframomum amaniense · Guinea Grains · Aframomum arundinaceum · Aframomum aulacocarpos · Aframomum cereum · Aframomum chrysanthum · Aframomum citratum · Aframomum colosseum · Aframomum cordifolium
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aframomum atewae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
