Botanical name: Zingiber murlenica    Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)

Murlen Ginger is a newly (2015) described terrestrial herb with rhizomes close to the soil surface, small, branched, greyish brown inside, roots many, fleshy, without tubers, odorless. Leafy shoots are 1.00-1.25 m tall, erect, thick, basal sheaths green, hairless. Leaves are 12-15, green throughout, at 9-3 cm intervals from down to upwards, leaf-stalk about 1 cm long, whitish green, hairless, ligule about 1 x about 3 cm, bilobed, hairless, tips round, leathery, green, margins hyaline. Leaves are 25-50 x 10-14 cm, oblong- lanceshaped, above dark green, smooth, hairless, below off-green, velvet-hairy, bases wedge-shaped, tips tapering. Inflorescences arise from the base, 1-2 per plant, 7-10 cm above the ground; flower-cluster-stalk prostrate, 7-10 cm long, pinkish-white. Flower-spike is ovate or nearly spherical, 5-7 x 3.0-4.5 cm, with 25-30 floral bracts. 5-8 x 2.5-3 cm, oblong-obovate, tip tapering, deflexed, pinkish-green, hairless, lower one smaller than upper one. Bracteoles are lanceshaped, about 4.0 x about 0.8 cm, creamy-white, with flat tip, hairless. Flowers are 7−9 cm long; sepal-cup creamy-white, hairless 2.0−2.5 cm long, 3-4 mm in diameter, tubular, shortly tritoothed at apical portion, unilaterally split; flower tube slender, creamy-white, hairless, petals nearly equal, dorsal lobe 2.5−3.0 x 0.8-1.0 cm, lanceshaped, 8-nerved, tip tapering. Murlen Ginger is known only from Mizoram.

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