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Costus speciosus

Scientific Name
Costus speciosus
Family Name
Costaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Keu, tara (Bangladesh), Keyu (India), Euang bon (Laos), Setawar, tawar,setengteng (Malaysia), Thebu (Sri Lanka), Mía dò, cát lồi, đọt đắng, sẹ vòng (Vietnam)
Description
A succulent perennial herb with slender glabrous, spirally twisted stems. Leavessimple, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, appressed hairy beneath. Flowers with whitelimbs and yellow in center in terminal compact spikes. Bracts are deep red. Capsulesobtusely trigonous, globose or ovoid, deep red. Seeds subglobose, greyish-black,smooth, glabrous. (India)
Shrub (Laos)
Perennial, much-branching herb, 2-3m tall, glabrous to variously hairy, with rhizomethat can become tuberous. Leaves spirally arranged; sheath 4cm long, bladeoblanceolate-acuminate, up to 23cm x 6cm Inflorescence an ellipsoid cluster ofcincinni, about 10cm x 5cm, terminal on a leafy shoot; corolla tubular, ending in lobes,5-6cm long, pinkish white; labellum curved, trumpet-shaped, 6-7cm x 8-10cm, white.Fruit bright red, dehiscing loculicidally. Seed black with fleshy white aril. C. speciousoccurs in forest edges and similar half open, rather wet locations, not in full forestshade, up to 1000m altitude. Propagation is possible from seed, pieces of rhizome andby tissue culture. (Malaysia)
Erect herbaceous plant, attaining 2m. in height, occasionally branched. Rhizome stout,creeping horizontally. Leaves alternate, lower part surroundring the stem, tomentose,arranged in a spiral when young. Inflorescence in dense terminal spike; flowers whitewith yellowish centre; bracts red. Capsule with numerous black seeds (Vietnam)
Uses
Astringent, stimulant, aphrodisiac, catarrh, fever, cough, dyspepsia, worms, skindiseases, marrow (Bangladesh)
Tubers, precursor, steroids, inflammation, pungent, bitter, bronchitis, dyspepsia,inflammation, anaemia, rheumatism, lumbago, hiccough, catarrh, fever (India)
Otitis, kidney stone, diuretic (Laos)
Ear diseases, purgative, tonic, depurative, aphrodisiac, cough, skin diseases, fever,anti inflammantory, anti arthritis (Malaysia)
Depurative, worms, purgative, fever, syphilis, aphrodisiac, cough, skin diseases,dysentery, dyspepsia, catarrh (Sri Lanka)
Anti inflammatory, fever, urodynia, biliuria, rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, otitis(Vietnam)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Ritigala, Meegahak, Pinna, Pallekale, Pattipola
Vietnam - Ha Noi
Remarks
Costus speciosus (GRIN)

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