• 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) : Zingiber cernuum Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Common in Western Ghats, usually prefers moist shady habitats in upper ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : June-August
• Collection Nos : HFP 301, KFP 13507
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 1988- Studies on Zingiberaceae of Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Zingiber cernuum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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