Aframomum exscapum

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Aframomum exscapum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by John Sims and got its current name from Frank Nigel Hepper.

Its Susu name is dadigogo.H. Pobéguin, [https://bibnum.univ-lyon1.fr/nuxeo/nxfile/default/bc7af44e-804c-44cc-9a07-469cb8d91dd9/file:content/bulyon1_2020_33055.pdf Essai sur la flore de la Guinée Francaise], Paris, ed. Augustin Challamel, 1906, p. 326.

Another name is balancounfa. It was described in 1891 by Edouard Heckel, who wrongly attributed to it the name of Ceratanthera Beaumetzi.Edouard Heckel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RI01gj92sygC&dq=Heckel&pg=PA19 Contribution à l'étude de l'état cléistogamique. Sur le Dadi-go ou Balancounfa (Ceratanthera Beaumetzi Ed. Heckel). Plante nouvelle cléistogame et distopique, usitée come tænifuge sur la côte occidentale de l'Afrique tropicale], Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille, t. 1, 1891, p. 19-46

References

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Hepper, 1967 In: Kew Bull. 21: 133

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