Curcuma glauca, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 16 relations: Burmese cuisine, Curcuma, Curcuma roscoeana, Endemism, Flowering plant, Herb, Larsenianthus, Larsenianthus careyanus, Marantaceae, Myanmar, Nathaniel Wallich, Plants of the World Online, Rhizome, Stachyphrynium, Storage organ, Zingiberaceae.

2. Curcuma
3. Endemic flora of Myanmar
4. Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich

Burmese cuisine

Burmese cuisine encompasses the diverse regional culinary traditions of Myanmar, which have developed through longstanding agricultural practices, centuries of sociopolitical and economic change, and cross-cultural contact and trade with neighboring countries at the confluence of Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South Asia, such as modern-day nations of Thailand, China, and India, respectively.

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Curcuma

Curcuma is a genus of plants in the family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam tulip.

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Curcuma roscoeana

Curcuma roscoeana (also known as jewel of Burma, orange ginger, orange hidden ginger, pride of Burma or Burmese hidden lily) is a plant of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family. Curcuma glauca and Curcuma roscoeana are Curcuma and Zingiberales stubs.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Flowering plant

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.

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Herb

In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances.

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Larsenianthus

Larsenianthus is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).

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Larsenianthus careyanus

Larsenianthus careyanus is a species of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).

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Marantaceae

The Marantaceae are a family, the arrowroot family, of flowering plants consisting of 31 genera and around 530 species, defining it as one of the most species-rich families in its order.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nathaniel Wallich

Nathaniel Wolff Wallich (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company.

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Plants of the World Online

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.

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Stachyphrynium

Stachyphrynium is a genus of plants native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.

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Storage organ

A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water.

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Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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See also

Curcuma

• Curcuma
• Curcuma alismatifolia
• Curcuma amada
• Curcuma angustifolia
• Curcuma aromatica
• Curcuma australasica
• Curcuma bicolor
• Curcuma caesia
• Curcuma comosa
• Curcuma glauca
• Curcuma graminifolia
• Curcuma myanmarensis
• Curcuma petiolata
• Curcuma phaeocaulis
• Curcuma prakasha
• Curcuma rhomba
• Curcuma roscoeana
• Curcuma supraneeana
• Curcuma zanthorrhiza
• Curcuma zedoaria
• Curcuma zedoaroides
• Turmeric

Endemic flora of Myanmar

• Coelogyne parishii
• Curcuma glauca
• Curcuma myanmarensis
• Hypselandra
• Pachystoma nutans
• Ratzeburgia
• Roscoea australis
• Sonerila margaritacea
• Stadiochilus
• Stauntonia crassifolia
• Stauntonia filamentosa
• Ulva burmanica
• Veldkampia
• Woodburnia
• Zingiber barbatum

Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich

• Apios carnea
• Brackenridgea elegantissima
• Curcuma glauca
• Drosera finlaysoniana
• Gardenia tubifera
• Hemiphragma heterophyllum
• Jasminum calophyllum
• Leycesteria
• Leycesteria formosa
• Lonicera ligustrina
• Notholirion
• Panax pseudoginseng
• Picea smithiana
• Polyura geminata
• Rinorea bengalensis
• Sageretia hamosa
• Strophanthus gratus
• Vossia cuspidata
• Wightia (plant)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curcuma_glauca

Also known as Dischema glaucum, Hitchenia, Hitchenia glauca.