Shellflower or dwarf cardamom, Alpinia nutans. Alpinie a fleurs pendantes. Handcoloured steel engraving by A.P. Teillard after an illustration by Louis Joseph Edouard Maubert from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
Shellflower or dwarf cardamom, Alpinia nutans. Alpinie a fleurs pendantes. Handcoloured steel engraving by A.P. Teillard after an illustration by Louis Joseph Edouard Maubert from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.