Curcuma glauca explained

Curcuma glauca is a species of flowering plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is a rhizomatous geophyte endemic to Myanmar. The plant, which is called malaphu (မာလာဖူး) in Burmese, is used as an herb in Burmese cuisine.^[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Hitchenia glauca by Nathaniel Wallich in 1835. The genus Hitchenia has now been subsumed into Curcuma,^[2] with some species now included in other genera.^[3]

• Hitchenia careyana Benth. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker = Larsenianthus careyanus (Benth.) W.J.Kress & Mood
• Hitchenia caulina (J.Graham) Baker = Curcuma caulina J.Graham
• Hitchenia musacea Baker = Stachyphrynium latifolium (Blume) K.Schum.
• Hitchenia roscoeana (Wall.) Benth. & Hook.f. = Curcuma roscoeana Wall.

Curcuma and Larsenianthus are in the family Zingiberaceae, but Stachyphrynium is in Marantaceae.

External links

• Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, Hitchenia glauca 'Rangoon Beauty' photo

Notes and References

1. Web site: ဆေးဖက်ဝင်တဲ့ မာလာဖူး ရဲ့ အကျိုးအာနိသင် . 2022-10-26 . MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews . my.
2. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37287-1 Hitchenia Wall.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=249027 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families