- Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
(Ginger Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Zingiberaceae
- Synonym(s) : Curcuma wenyujin Y.H.Chen & C.Ling; Curcuma zedoaria Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : 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
- Key identification features : Rhizomatous, strongly aromatic herbs; Rhizomes greyish outside and yellow inside; Leaves oblong, silky pubescent beneath; Flowers in spike on separate, leafy shoots; upper bracts mauve; corolla pink.
- Flower, Fruit : May-September
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 23/05/1980
- Collection Nos : KFP 11552, KFP 11567
- Collection Locality : Charmadi ghat, Dakshina Kannada district; Near Padubidri, Dakshina Kannada district
- 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
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 172
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Curcuma aromatica. 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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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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