Garg Sahib, it should be Spiral ginger (*Costus speciosus)* Also see the link : www.hear.org/.../images/image/?q=030807-0069
Regards, Suresh C Sharma On 3/25/09, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forwarding again for Id pl. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Padmanabhan Geetha <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/3/3 > Subject: [indiantreepix:/] 030309 GI Is this a ZINGIBERACEAE member > To: satish phadke <[email protected]> > Cc: indiantreepix Indian <[email protected]>, wildflowerindia > <[email protected]> > > > Dear Friends > Request id. Is it a memeber of the Family ZINGIBERACEAE? > Location : Isha Home School, Coimbatore.Not photographed in the wild. > thanks you and > best wishes > geetha > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:40 PM, satish phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> FAMILY OF THE WEEK : ZINGIBERACEAE >> >> A family of 45 genera and 750 species distributed in the tropical regions >> chiefly Indo Malaysia. In India there are 17 genera and 112 species >> occurring in Eastern Himalayas and Western ghats. >> >> *Vegetative characters:* >> They are perennial herbs with creeping, horizontal or tuberous rhizomes. >> The plants are usually aromatic. >> The aerial stem when present is short and leafy or scapose and bearing >> only flowers as in *Curcuma *and *Zingiber*. The leaves are basal or >> cauline and are in two rows. They have a sheathing base and a petiole may or >> may not present between sheath and blade. The blade is linear to elliptical >> often large with numerous closely parallel and pinnate veins diverging >> obliquely from the midrib. A characteristic ligule is present at the >> junction of the petiole and blade. >> >> *Inflorescence and flowers:* >> The inflorescence is either terminal on the leafy shoot or on a scale leaf >> bearing scape(*Curcuma*) or produced directly from the rootstock at the >> base of the stem(*Amomum*).It is a spike (*Curcuma*) or a dense head(* >> Costus*) or panicle.Sometimes the flowers are solitary as in >> Gastrochilus. >> The flowers are bracteate and the bracts are often coloured and distichous >> or spirally arranged. They are mostly bisexual, zygomorphic or >> actinomorphic, trimerous and epigynous. The perianth is of six members in >> two trimerous whorls. It is differentiated into an outer calyx and and an >> inner corolla. The three sepals are united into a tube. The odd sepal is >> anterior. The petals are also more or less united and the three segments are >> similar or dissimilar and then the posterior segment is usually the largest >> and covers the edges of lateral segments. The petals are often very showy >> and delicate. The androecium is of six stamens in two trimerous whorls. The >> anterior stamen of the outer whorl is always absent while the other two are >> represented by large and leafy staminodes. The posterior stamen of the inner >> whorl and the other two are united to form a petaloid labellum which >> embraces the fertile stamen and is often the most conspicuous part of the >> flower. The fertile stamen and the staminodes are inserted on the mouth of >> the corolla tube. The fertile stamen has a slender and deeply grooved >> filament and a dithecous anther dehiscing vertically. The gynoecium is >> tricarpellary and syncarpous. The ovary is inferior and trilocular.The style >> is simple and terminal and is more or less enevoloped in the groove of the >> filament of the fertile stamen. Sometimes the style is two lipped or >> dentate. The stigma is simple or capitate. >> A pair of nectar secreting epigynous glands are often present. >> >> *Fruits and seeds:* >> The fruit is usually a loculicidal capsule. The seeds are rounded or >> angular with copious hard or mealy endosperm and straight embryo. >> >> *Pollination and dispersal:* >> The showy flowers favour insect pollination. The fruits are distributed by >> animals. >> >> *Examples*: >> Zingiber officinale (Ginger, adrak, Ale) >> Curcuma >> Curcuma longa L. (Turmeric,Haldi) >> Curcuma angustifolia Roxb.(East Indian arrowroot, Tikhur) >> Curcuma neilgherrensis >> Amomum cardamomum (Cardamum,Choti Elayachi) >> Elettaria cardamomum (Cardamon, Elaychi) >> Hitchenia caulina >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http:// satishphadke.blogspot.com >> >> >> > > For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group > (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
