Hedychium coronarium Koenig

 
  • Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
    (Ginger Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Zingiberaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Gandasulium coronarium (J.Koenig) Kuntze; Kaempferia hedychium Lam.; Amomum filiforme W.Hunter; Gandasulium lingulatum (Hassk.) Kuntze; Hedychium chrysoleucum Hook.; Hedychium coronarium var. chrysoleucum (Hook.) Baker; Hedychium coronarium var. maximum (Roscoe) Eichler; Hedychium flavescens var. chrysoleucum (Hook.) C.E.C.Fisch.; Hedychium gandasulium Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Hedychium lingulatum Hassk.; Hedychium maximum Roscoe; Hedychium prophetae Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Hedychium spicatum G.Lodd.; Hedychium sulphureum Wall.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : 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 : Tropical 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
  • Key identification features : Perennial herbs; Leaves oblong-Ianceolate, hairy beneath; Spike dense, cone like; bracts green; Flowers white with pale-yellow blotch at mouth; filaments white; Capsules subglobose.
  • 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 : Kalahandi district, Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district
    • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Theni district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • 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
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 176
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  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hedychium coronarium. Downloaded on 21 February 2026.

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