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<big>''[[Crinum latifolium]]'' L.</big>
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:Protologue: Sp. pl. 1: 291 (1753).

== Synonyms ==

''Crinum moluccanum'' Roxb. (1859).

== Vernacular names ==

*Philippines: lirio, bakong (Tagalog)
*Thailand: waan kho daeng (Bangkok), waan raeng khokham (central)
*Vietnam: náng lá rộng, trinh nữ hoàng cung.

== Distribution ==

Native to tropical Asia, possibly India, cultivated in Asia as an ornamental, sometimes escaped.

== Uses ==

The bulbs are extremely acid. In India, when roasted, they are used as a rubefacient in rheumatism, or crushed on piles and abscesses to cause suppuration. The juice of the leaves is used for earache.

== Observations ==

A herb up to 150 m tall, bulb 8-15 cm in diameter; leaves 12-20, oblong-linear, 60-120 cm × 4-7 cm, margins distantly serrated, rough; umbel 10-20-flowered, scape as long as the leaves, green or purplish-green, bracts 5-7 cm long, very broadly ovate, purplish; flowers fragrant, corolla tube 10-13 cm long, curved, green, tinged with purple, lobes oblong-lanceolate, 8-13 cm × 2.5-3.5 cm, white, flushed with pale purple in median part, stamens declinate, filaments 5.5-9 cm long, white, anthers 2.5-3 cm long, yellow, becoming purple-grey, style 17-23 cm long, white; capsule rarely formed, rounded, 4-5 cm in diameter. ''C. latifolium'' is known from cultivation only.

== Selected sources ==

786, 788.

== Authors ==

Wardah


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