Art by Alice Tangerini: Aframomum angustifolium (Sonn.) K.Schum.

From Plant Press, Vol. 26, No. 4, October 2023.

This illustration by Alice Tangerini was completed in 1995 and based on living specimens in the Botany Research Greenhouse grown from collections by John Kress. Tangerini visited the greenhouses a number of times to make dissections and illustrate the flowers and habit. It was one of her early drawings of Zingiberales and included details of the flowers with cross sections of the ovary and anthers. Aframomum angustifolium is an endemic species from tropical Africa and was collected by Kress in Madagascar. The drawing was exhibited at the 4^th International Symposium on the Family Zingiberaceae held at the Singapore Botanical Gardens in July 2006 attended by Kress. Along with several other of Tangerini’s illustrations of gingers, it was framed and admired by many of the attendees. In an effort to have all the drawings in Botany imaged and databased, the framed illustration was turned over to intern Erin Ellis for scanning. Ellis’ expertise in scanning as well as cleaning dust and stray pencil lines resulted in a high-quality reproduction of the original.