Amomum hochreutineri (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

1, stem base with inflorescence; 2, flower; 3, stamen; 4, infructescence (Achmad Satiri Nurhaman)

Protologue: Icones Bogoriensis 2(4): t. 195 (1906).

Vernacular names

Very locally in western Java.

Rhizomes and fruits are used as poultice to treat lumbago.

A medium-sized herb up to 100 cm tall, with stout and long rhizome, whitish and up to 1 cm thick, and slender, red leafy stems.
Leaves lanceolate, larger ones 55-70 cm × 7.5-9 cm.
Inflorescence ascending, hardly raised above the ground, up to 30 cm long, few-flowered, bracts few, up to 3.5 cm long, outer 1-2 sterile, bracteoles about 2 cm long, hardly sheathing.
Flowers sessile, exserted from bracts, corolla tube about as long as calyx, labellum erect, much exserted, white, greenish-yellow in the centre and red-streaked, stamen hardly shorter than corolla, anther with 3-lobed appendage.
Fruit about 1.5 cm long, 9-12-ribbed, ribs with curled-crenate margins, white with red stripes.

A. hochreutineri occurs in primary lower montane forest at 1000-1400 m altitude.

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Heyne, K., 1950. De nuttige planten van Indonesië [The useful plants of Indonesia]. 3rd Edition. 2 volumes. W. van Hoeve, 's Gravenhage, the Netherlands/Bandung, Indonesia. 1660 + CCXLI pp.