Curcuma picta – eFlora of India

June 3, 2019
Curcuma

Curcuma picta Roxb. ex kornick., Taxon 57: 959 2008. ;

India as per WCSP;

MS May, 2019/02 Curcuma sp. for ID : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (6)

Location : N.Vanlaiphai, Mizoram

Date : 22-05-2019

Habit : Herb

Habitat : Wild

Altitude : ca 1,350 m

Curcuma aromatica Salisb. ??

Check the colour of the rhizome. Curcuma caesia or Curcuma zanthorrhiza

It is not C.caesia.

Colour of rhizome/bulb is white with yellow ring, I think

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Same plant

Attachments (1) – 3 mb.

Since the rhizome is ivory coloured it may be Curcuma picta. I have deleted the earlier mail with plant and inflorescence. PL. forward the same.

The inflorescence is used as a vegetable by the local people. It grows wild near paddy fields.

C. picta ?

That is what … has stated.

References:

Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP POWO Reasearch Gate illustration Taxonomic and nomenclatural puzzles in Indian Curcuma: the identity andnomenclatural history of C. zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe and C. zerumbet Roxb. (Zingiberaceae) (2008)

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