Botanical name: Meistera acuminata    Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Amomum acuminatum, Amomum muricatum, Meistera muricata

Malabar Cardamom is a herb with leafy stem 1.5-3 m high, densely clumped, erect, straight. Leaves are 30 x 7 cm, elliptic-oblong, tapering, stalkless, hairless; ligule 3 mm long, flat. Flowers are densely packed; flower tube 2.8 cm long, petals unequal, up to 3 x 1.8 cm, oblong, blunt, yellow with red lines; anthers 9 mm long, crest, 15 mm broad, eared; lip 4 x 3 cm; middle lobes notched, yellow, with brown streaks. Sepal-tube is 2.5 cm long, sepals blunt, needle-tipped. Fowers are borne in spikes 2-5-together, 14-15 cm long, shortly stalked; floral bracts 3.5 x 1.5 cm, obovate, blunt, fringed with hairs; yellow with brown lines; bracteoles 2 cm long, lobes blunt. Capsule 1.5-2 cm across, brown. Malabar Cardamom is found in Southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. Flowering: May-October.

Your name:
Your email:
Your comments
The flower labeled Malabar Cardamom is ...