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Etlingera elatior

Scientific Name
Etlingera elatior
Family Name
Zingiberaceae
Common Names
Torch ginger
Local Names
Kantan, kechala, ubud udat (Malaysia)
Description
Leafy stem 2.5-5m x 2-4cm Rhizome thick, cream, pinkish when young. Leaves 15-30, the lowest much smaller than the higher ones; sheath green, sometimes tingedwith red, often densely pruinose; ligule broadly orbicular, about 1.5cm long and wide,ciliate; petiole 1-2.5(-4)cm long; blade elliptical-oblong, 20-90cm x 10-20cm, baserounded or cordate, margins wavy, apex with a short narrow point, glabrous but verydensely and finely dotted, glossy green above, underneath often purplish when young.Peduncle 0.5-2.5m x 1.5-2.5cm; involucral bracts elliptical, 7-18cm x 1-7cm,crimsonpink, fleshy, spreading with apices reflexed at flowering and near the apexwith a dark red appendage; floral bracts as long as or somewhat longer than theflowers, pink (but sometimes also red, purplish or white), outer ones showing atransition from the involucral bracts becoming smaller towards the centre of theinflorescence; bracteoles deeply split, about 2cm long, white, much smaller than theflowers; calyx 3-3.5cm long, unilaterally split, 3-toothed; corolla pink, up to 4cmlong; labellum spatulate, about 4cm long, deep crimson with white or yellow edges;stamen 2.5cm long, filament white-hairy, anther red; style thin, red and hairy near theapex, stigma clavate, dark red. Fruiting head subglobose, about 10-20cm in diameter;fruit berrylike, globose, 2-2.5cm in diameter, with silky hairs, green when unripe,turning red at maturity. Seeds small, numerous, black-brown, with a white or pink,translucent aril. (Malaysia)
Uses
Ear ache, wounds, confinement (Malaysia)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Etlingera elatior (GRIN)

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