• 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 aromatica Salisb.
• Common name : Wild Turmeric, Cochin Turmeric, Yellow Zedoary
• Vernacular name : Ban-haridhra, Junglee-haldi (Hindi); Kasturi-arishina (Kannada); Aranyaharidhra, Vanaharidhara (Sanskrit); Amba-halad, Ran-haldi (Marathi); Palua, Bono haldi (Oria); Kasturi pasupu (Telugu); Kasthurimanjal, Kattumanjal, Kattumannar, Pullakizhangu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grows wild in degraded forests, and in plantations
• Comments / notes : Cultivated
• Flower, Fruit : May-September
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Pune district
  • Odisha : Wild and cultivated
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, China
• 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 aromatica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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