- 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 : Kalhandi 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
- 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
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hedychium coronarium. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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