• Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
  (Ginger Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ZINGIBERACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Amomum microstephanum Baker
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Amomum pterocarpum Thwaites
• Vernacular name : Perelam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Common in forests of Western Ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : May-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Rare (R)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 1988- Studies on Zingiberaceae of Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Amomum pterocarpum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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