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Curcuma mangga Valeton & v. Zijp

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Curcuma in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 27: 50 (1918).

Indonesia: temu mangga (general), koneng lalab (Sundanese), temo pao (Madurese). Malaysia: temu pauh (Peninsular). Thailand: khamin khao.

Only known from cultivation in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Java.

Rhizomes are part of a mixture given to treat continued fever. They are chewed to cause the womb to contract after childbirth. The starch is recommended by traditional healers to treat abdominal illness. The main use of Curcuma mangga is as a vegetable.

A herb with branched rhizome, yellowish outside, the top white, inside lemon-coloured to sulphur-yellow with a white outer layer; leaf sheaths 30-65 cm long, blades elliptical-oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 15-95 cm x 5-23 cm, green; inflorescence on a separate shoot, bracts green, coma bracts white at base, purple towards the top; corolla 3-4 cm long, white; labellum 15-25 mm x 14-18 mm, white with a yellow median band, other staminodes longitudinally folded, white, anther with long, narrow spurs. Curcuma mangga is cultivated in very fertile soils, up to 1000 m altitude.

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Trimurti H. Wardini & Budi Prakoso

Wardini, T.H. & Prakoso, B., 1999. Curcuma mangga Valeton & v. Zijp. In: de Padua, L.S., Bunyapraphatsara, N. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(1): Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea