Common names (English):

Java galangal, Siamese ginger, Greater galang

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Herb

Distribution: Cultivated throughout SE Asia

Use: Medicinal

Description:

Rhizomatous perennial herbs. Leafy stem to 2 m high. Leaves 40-65 cm long. Inflorescence terminal on the leaf shoot, dense-flowered. Flowers about 4 cm long. Calyx split on one side, greenish-white. Corolla tube c. 1.2 cm long, greenish-white; lobes unequal. Labellum white.

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