Curcuma euchroma (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 27: 42 (1918).

Vernacular names

Java.

Rhizomes are sometimes used medicinally as a substitute for those of C. longa.

A herb with branched rhizome, outside and inside bright orange or orange-yellow, tips whitish.
Leaf sheaths up to 50 cm long, blades obovate-elliptical, 26-72 cm × 12-25 cm, green with a dark red-brown midrib.
Inflorescence terminal on a leafy shoot, bracts pale green to pale yellow-green, coma bracts slightly violet-dotted.
Corolla almost 2 cm long, pinkish; labellum about 17 mm × 16 mm, ochraceous with a darker median band, other staminodes longitudinally folded, ochraceous, anther with long spurs.

C. euchroma is found in teak forest.

Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C., 1963-1968. Flora of Java. 3 volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands. Vol. 1 (1963) 647 pp., Vol. 2 (1965) 641 pp., Vol. 3 (1968) 761 pp.
Burkill, I.H., 1966. A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula. Revised reprint. 2 volumes. Ministry of Agriculture and Co operatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol. 1 (A-H) pp. 1-1240. Vol. 2 (I- Z) pp. 1241-2444.
Valeton, T., 1918. New notes on the Zingiberaceae of Java and the Malayan Archipelago. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, Série II, 27: 1-167.