- Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
(Ginger Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Zingiberaceae
- Synonym(s) : Amomum sylvestre Lam.; Amomum zerumbet L.; Zerumbet zingiber T.Lestib.; Zingiber sylvestre Garsault
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Roscoe ex Sm.
- Common name : Wild Ginger, Stone ginger, Bitter Ginger, Broad-Leaved Ginger, Pine Cone Ginger, Shampoo Ginger, Zerumbet Ginger
- Vernacular name :
- Agalu shunti, Kallu shunti (Kannada)
- Kattinchi, Kolinchi, Kattukolinchi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Rare along edges of forests. The rhizome is used in locally as an antidote to Snake bite
- Flower, Fruit : July-August
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Nayagarh district, Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Khurda district
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 1988- Studies on Zingiberaceae of Karnataka
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 182
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Zingiber zerumbet. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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