Richard Eric Holttum
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Honorary Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. Director, Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 1925β49. Professor of Botany, University of Malaya, Singapore, 1949β54. Author of A Revised Flora of Malaya and others.
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Zingiberales, the ginger and banana order of flowering plants, consisting of 8 families, 92 genera, and more than 2,100 species. Members of Zingiberales are widely distributed in the tropics, particularly as shade plants in tropical regions. Several genera of the order are of major economicβ¦
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