• Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
  (Ginger Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ZINGIBERACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Hedychium chrysoleucum Hook.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hedychium coronarium J.König
• Common name : Butterfly Lily, Common Ginger Lily, Butterfly Ginger Lily, Garland flower, White ginger
• Vernacular name : Suruli, Sugandhi (Kannada); Sontaka (Marathi); Elipoochedi, Sugandhi, Saugandhikam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, also grown in gardens
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1000m. Occasional in clumps by stream banks and in marshy places. Widely cultivated and naturalized in the tropics
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 25-11-2018
• Collection Nos : HJCB-1830
• Collection Locality : Chinnar, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vizianagaram district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai-City district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Theni district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Malay Islands
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); Herbarium specimen from Chinnar, Idukki district, Kerala
• 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=Hedychium coronarium. Downloaded on 5 April 2025.

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