• Family : ZINGIBERACEAE
  (Ginger Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : HALDI FAMILY (हल्दी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ZINGIBERACEAE
• Basionym : Gastrochilus pulcherrimus Wall.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Boesenbergia pulcherrima (Wall.) Kuntze
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in evergreen forests of Western Ghats; in moist shady places as an undergrowth
• Flower, Fruit : June-September
• Collection Nos : HFP 2209, KFP 8803
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 1988- Studies on Zingiberaceae of Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Boesenbergia pulcherrima. Downloaded on 2 May 2024.

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