| Khasi Orchid Ginger |
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| Original date | 7/1/25 3:29 PM |
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| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Caulokaempferia linearis Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Costus linearis, Kaempferia linearis, Monolophus linearis
Synonyms: Costus linearis, Kaempferia linearis, Monolophus linearis
Khasi Orchid Ginger is a rock-dwelling herb, 16-18 cm
long. Roots are worm like, whitish. Stem is greenish, round, about 0.2
cm in diameter. Leaves are 10-11, stalkless, hairless, blade green,
lanceshaped, 5-6 x 0.5-0.6 cm, with a tail. Sepal-cup is pinkish white,
upto 1 cm long. Petals are pinkish white, linear-oblong, 7-10 x 3-4 mm,
tube upto 2 cm long, hairless. Lateral staminodes are
oblong-wedge-shaped, as long as petals. Lip is broadly wedge-shaped,
obovate, trilobed, 1-2 cm long, midlobe slightly notched, tinged with
yellow spot at the throat. Anther-crest large, petal-like, tip
reflexed, round. Ovary is one-celled, style thread-like, stigma cup
shaped, fringed with hairs at tip. Flowers are borne few in a
branch-end cluster with axis hairless; bracts 2, green, lanceshaped, up
to 3 cm long, pointed, each subtending upto 5 flowers. Khasi Orchid
Ginger is found growing in mossy moist rock crevices or boulders in the
bank of streams in shady places, in Meghalaya and Mizoram. Flowering:
July-August.
Medicinal uses:
Local tribe Chakmas use
crushed leaves on the head in vertigo.
Medicinal uses:
Local tribe Chakmas use
crushed leaves on the head in vertigo. | Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed at Krang Suri Waterfall, Meghalaya. |
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