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Volume 60, Issue 2, December 2018

Articles

Distributional note on Curcuma auriantiaca (Zingiberaceae), in Eastern India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v60/2018/138688

Published 2019-12-31

  • Truptirekha Kar
    • ,
  • Sudhansu Sekhar Khora
    • ,
  • Kishore Kumar Mandal

Truptirekha Kar
P.G. Department of Botany, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha – 756020

Sudhansu Sekhar Khora
Divisional Forest Office, Bonai Forest Division, Bonaigarh, Odisha – 770038

Kishore Kumar Mandal
P.G. Department of Botany, North Orissa University, Baripada, Odisha – 757003

Abstract

Curcuma auriantiaca Zijp, a species erstwhile known to occur only in Southern western ghats and North east India recorded for the first time from Eastern Ghats in the Bonai Forest Division of Odisha. A brief taxonomic description along with a photo plate of the taxon is provided here.

Keywords

Bonai, Curcuma, Eastern ghats, Odisha, Zingiberaceae.

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