Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) Burtt

 
  • Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
    (Ginger Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Zingiberaceae
  • Basionym : Zingiber nigrum Gaertn.
  • Synonym(s) : Amomum nigrum (Gaertn.) Raeusch.; Zingiber nigrum Gaertn.; Alpinia allughas (Retz.) Roscoe; Alpinia bilamellata Makino; Amomum bifidum Stokes; Amomum taraca Horan.; Hellenia allughas (Retz.) Willd.; Heritiera allughas Retz.; Languas allughas (Retz.) Burkill
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) Burtt
  • Vernacular name :
    • Taraka (Marathi)
    • Malayinjikuva (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
  • Key identification features : Erect, perennial, Tuberous herbs; Leaves oblong- lanceolate, glabrous; Flowers in terminal, racemose panicle; corolla white with radiating pink lines on lip; Capsules black.
  • Flower, Fruit : January-May
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
    • Kerala : Idukki district
    • Maharashtra : Pune district, Sindhudurg district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • West Bengal : West Bengal
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Dibang Valley, Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
    • 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.: 169-170
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Alpinia nigra. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.

Field Image(s)

Habitat

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.