Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH277 : Curcuma pseudomontana J.Graham

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 496

Synonym : Curcuma grahamiana Voigt, nom. illeg.; Curcuma ranadei Prain.;

Plant Common Name : Jangli Halad, K- Kukus-Mukus, Hill Turmeric, Kachura, raan halada, shindalavana, shindalavani, Kattu manjal, Kattu manjal

Plant Family : Zingiberaceae

Description : an erect herb, growing to 75 cm tall, found on moist, shaded areas of wet forests and along sluggish grassy slopes of higher altitude. It has stout rootstock bearing small almond like sub-globose tubers at the ends of the_fibrous roots. The tubers are fleshy and white inside, aromatic. Leaves 3-5, oblong-lancelike, 20-30 x 6-9 cm, base acute, tip sharp, margin entire, hairless; shiny; leaf stalk and the leaf sheath up to 20 cm long. Flowering spikes seen in the center of the previously formed tuft of leaves, 10-25 cm long, bearing numerous compactly arranged flowers; flowering bracts conspicuous, inverted eggshaped to lancelike, 3-5 x l.5-2,cm, apex rounded to acute, hairless; gr,een with a pinktip. Non-flowering bracts (coma) oblong-lancelike, conspicuous, purple below and pinkish purple above. Flowers 2-4 in each fertile bract, bright yellow, 3 cm long and 4 cm broad. Capsules spherical, splitting by 3-valves, smooth. Seeds ovoid or oblong, usually covered with arils. Flowering: June-September.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Asthama, Cough, Cold, use tuber extracts to cure jaundice, warm tuber paste to treat body swellings, eat boiled tubers to increase lactation, tuber paste on the head for cooling effect.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33082 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Hill%20Turmeric.html

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass : Zingiberidae
Order : Zingiberales
Family : Zingiberaceae - Ginger family
Genus : Curcuma L - curcuma
Species : Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.

Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.
Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.
Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.
Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.
Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.