Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Rhizome tuberous, 1-2 cm thick, highly branched, yellowish-green inside. Leafy shoots 1.5-2.5 m tall. Leaves spirally arranged on the stem, 8-24 x 3-7 cm, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, base tapering, apex abruptly acuminate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely hairy; ligule truncate, densely hairy; petiole 3-5 mm long. Spikes terminal, 4-9 x 2-5 cm, more or less globose. Bracts 1.5-3 x 0.7-1.5 cm, ovate-acute, with a narrow subapical protruberance, reddish. Bracteoles 1-1.5 cm long, oblong, reddish. Calyx 2-2.5 cm long, 3-lobed; lobes 3-5 mm long. Corolla white; lobes to 4 x 0.8 cm, elliptic-oblong, acuminate. Labellum 5-8 cm wide, suborbicular, white with a creamy-yellow median band. Stamen median, on an oblong petaloid process. Ovary 5-8 mm long, globose, 3-lobed, 3-celled; ovules many; stigma crescent-shaped, ciliate. Capsule bright red, 2.5-3 x 2-2.5 cm, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds 6-8 x 3-4 mm, black with fleshy white aril.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering and fruiting: July-October
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Flower blooms during Summer
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
A fleshy herb of about 5 - 6 ft. high. Aerial stem round, with distinct nodes and internodes. Leaves pale green with silvery tinge, leaf sheath coveres the aerial stem. Flowers are big, showy in dense head, white. Fruit is capsule, quite distinct, green. It grows well in relatively drier sandy soil but rich in humus, found all over the state.
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Tender shoots are eaten as vegetable. Rhizome juice is used as medicine for treatment of Jaundice. The stem which is rich in water can be used as a source of water.
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Costus speciosus (Koenig) J.E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 1: 249. 1791; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 249. 1892; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1490(1041). 1928; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 288. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 408. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 380. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 311. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 467. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 393. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 789. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 498. 1990; Sabu, Taxonomic Phylogenetic Stud. Zingiberac. 85; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 475. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 381. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 14,20,27,34; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 459. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 336. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 707. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 446. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 342. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 708. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 497. 2005; Sabu, Zingiberaceae and Costaceae of South India 259. 2006; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 682. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 860. 2009.
- Banksea speciosa Koenig in Retz., Obs. Bot. 3: 75. 1783.
Information Listing > References
- Costus speciosus (Koenig) J.E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 1: 249. 1791; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 249. 1892; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1490(1041). 1928; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 288. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 408. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 380. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 311. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 467. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 393. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 789. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 498. 1990; Sabu, Taxonomic Phylogenetic Stud. Zingiberac. 85; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 475. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 381. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 14,20,27,34; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 459. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 336. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 707. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 446. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 342. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 708. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 497. 2005; Sabu, Zingiberaceae and Costaceae of South India 259. 2006; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 682. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 860. 2009.
- Banksea speciosa Koenig in Retz., Obs. Bot. 3: 75. 1783.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Zingiberales |
| Family | Costaceae |
| Genus | Hellenia |
| Species | Hellenia speciosa (J.Koenig) S.R.Dutta |
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