Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Gastrochilus pulcherrimus Wall. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Suberect herbs, to 15-25 cm long. Leaves few, scattered, to 13 x 6 cm, broadly elliptic, acute at both ends, thinly tomentose beneath; petiole to 2 cm long; sheath saccate. Spike to 5 cm long, terminal, one sided; bracts 20 x 8 mm, obovate, obtuse; bracteoles tubular, deeply cleft to the base. Flowers solitary in each bracts; calyx tube short, truncate; corolla tube 15 mm long; lobes equal, 10 x 4 mm, oblong; lip 20 x 15 mm, obovate, acute, white with brown spots; lateral staminodes 10 x 5 mm obovate; filaments 2 mm long; anthers parallel, not crested; ovary 3-celled, oblong; ovules few; style filiform. Fruit an oblong capsule.
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kasaragode, Idukki, Malappuram, Kannur, Kollam, Thrissur, Wayanad
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Gastrochilus pulcherrimus Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 22,t.24. 1829; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 217. 1890.
- Boesenbergia pulcherrima (Wall.) O. Ktze., Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 685. 1891; Mangaly & Swarup., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 23: 235. 1981; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 377. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 310. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 467. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 498. 1990; Sabu, Taxonomic Phylogenetic Stud. Zingiberac. 186. 1991; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 379. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 14. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 458. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 335. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 706. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 446. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 341. 2002; Sabu, Zingiberaceae and Costaceae of South India 121. 2006; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 860. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Gastrochilus pulcherrimus Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 22,t.24. 1829; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 217. 1890.
- Boesenbergia pulcherrima (Wall.) O. Ktze., Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 685. 1891; Mangaly & Swarup., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 23: 235. 1981; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 377. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 310. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 467. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 498. 1990; Sabu, Taxonomic Phylogenetic Stud. Zingiberac. 186. 1991; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 379. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 14. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 458. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 335. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 706. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 446. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 341. 2002; Sabu, Zingiberaceae and Costaceae of South India 121. 2006; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 860. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Zingiberales |
| Family | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus | Boesenbergia |
| Species | Boesenbergia pulcherrima (Wall.) Kuntze |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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