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  Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe

 

Synonym	:	Hedychium subditum Turrill
Family	:	Zingiberaceae
Local name	:	English-Yellow Ginger
Flowering and fruiting period	:	August-September
Distribution	:	India and Sri Lanka
Endemic/exotic	:	Exotic
Uses	:	Extract of the root is used as a ingredient in cosmetic production
Key botanical characters: Rhizome 2.2–3.4 cm wide, creamy white internally, slightly aromatic. Leafy shoot 116–140 cm high, slightly slanting. Leaves decurved, sessile or very shortly petiolate; lamina 46–50.5 x 7.5–8.7 cm, elliptic, deep glossy green and glabrous above, light green and densely pubescent below; ligule 4–4.4 cm long, single-lobed. Inflorescence 10–12 cm long, erect, lanceolate, compact with imbricate bracts. Bracts imbricate, obovate, coriaceous, green, yellow tinged towards base golden-yellow hairy externally; flowers 3 in each bracts. Flower 15.3–15.6 cm long, sulphur-yellow, slightly fragrant.