• Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
  (Ginger Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ZINGIBERACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Curcuma angustifolia
• Common name : East Indian arrow root, Travancore starch
• Vernacular name : Palma, Palagunda (Oria); Pikari (Hindi); Palagunda, Arrow root gaddalu (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Frequent in forests
• Flower, Fruit : -ay onwards
• Distribution :
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Curcuma angustifolia. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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