Curcuma decipiens Dalzell

KER-koo-muh -- from the Arabic kurkum, meaning saffron ... Dave's Botanary
de-SIP-ee-enz -- deceptive, false ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: deceptive curcuma • Hindi: जंगली हलदी jangli haldi, वन हलदी van haldi • Malayalam: കുഴിക്കൂവ kuzhikuva • Marathi: जांभळी रानहळद jambhali ranhalad


botanical names: Curcuma decipiens Dalzell ... synonyms: no synonyms known ... POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

deceptive curcuma

• Flowers of India ... name coined from the binomial of this species

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~

जंगली हलदी jangli haldi, वन हलदी van haldi

• Ravindra Kumar Abhyankar and Ravi Upadhyay - Ethnomedicinal Studies of Tubers of Hoshangabad M. P. - Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology & Life Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 2011: 57- 59

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

കുഴിക്കൂവ kuzhikuva

• India Biodiversity Portal | Kerala Plants

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

जांभळी रानहळद jambhali ranhalad

• Further Flowers of Sahyadri, a field guide to identify flowers of northern Western Ghats of India by Shrikant Ingalhalikar

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