Winged-Fruit Ginger is a herb with stems up to 2 m
tall, clumped, erect. Rhizome is up to 4 cm thick, old ones blue
inside. Leaves are up to 50 x 12 cm, elliptic-oblong, pointed at both
ends, hairless, usually clustered towards the tip, leaf-stalks 3 cm
long; ligule 3 mm long, whitish. Flowers are borne in spikes which are
5-15 cm long, 3-4 together, bracts 6-7 x 4 cm, broadly elliptic,
obtuse, pale pink. Flowers are solitary in a bract; lip 4 x 3 cm,
obovate, white with yellow centre. Capsule are 3 cm long, hairless,
with 3-8 mm broad entire wings. Winged-Fruit Ginger is found in South
India.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
Photographed at Anshi Ghat, Karnataka.
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