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§1 Plant

Etlingera cevuga (Seem.) R.M. Sm.

vernacular waxflower — species · Zingiberaceae

USDA
ETCE
GBIF
2760194
Rank
species
waxflower (Etlingera cevuga)
Platephotograph · alexbarnardCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Zingiberaceae Martinov
Genus
Etlingera
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 1 county across 1 state
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 1 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 1 county across 1 state.

Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ETCE ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2760194 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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