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Curculigo capitulata Kuntze

Palm-grass (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Hypoxidaceae > Curculigo

Characteristics

Herbs to 1 m tall, stout. Rhizomes tuberous, thick, with creeping, slender stolons. Leaves often 4--7; petiole 30--80 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to suboblong, 40--90 × 5--14 cm, plicate, papery, sometimes pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate. Flowering stems (10--)15--30 cm, brown villous. Racemes nodding, capitate to subovoid, 2.5--5 cm, densely many flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5--2.5 cm, hairy. Pedicel ca. 7 mm. Perianth yellow; segments ovate-oblong, ca. 8 × 3.5--4 mm, apex obtuse, outer segments adaxially hairy, inner ones adaxially hairy on midvein or at base of midvein. Stamens 5--6 mm; filament less than 1 mm; anther linear, ca. 5 mm. Ovary subglobose to oblong, hairy. Style longer than stamens, slender; stigma subcapitate. Berry white, subglobose, 4--5 mm in diam., beakless. Seeds black with irregular stripes. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Aug--Sep.
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Hairy herb. Leaves long-petiolate, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 60-150 cm long and 5-15 cm wide, nearly glabrous. Inflorescence a deflexed and head-like raceme, 2.5-7 cm long and wide; peduncle 7-30 cm long, tomentose to glabrescent at fructification; bracts brownish, 1.5-5 cm long, villous to glabrescent at fructification. Flowers subsessile, yellow, villous. Perigone-tube 1-2 mm long; lobes 6-8 mm long. Fruits whitish to green, 10-15 mm long, not beaked.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system fibrous-root rhizome
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses The fruits are edible. Leaf fibres are (or were) used in the Philippines, according to Burkill Diet. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. 1 1935 703 .
Uses environmental use fiber food gene source material medicinal potherb social use
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Abdominal pain (rhizome), Diarrhea (rhizome), Dysentery (rhizome), Gastroenteritis (rhizome), Hemostatics (rhizome), Sexually transmitted diseases (rhizome), Stomach diseases (rhizome), Eye diseases (tuber), Wounds and injuries (tuber)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

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Distribution

Curculigo capitulata world distribution map, present in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Dominica, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Moldova (Republic of), Myanmar, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:64141-1
WFO ID wfo-0000764772
COL ID 32G57
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 629492
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Molineria hortensis Curculigo capitulata Curculigo glabra Curculigo recurvata Curculigo strobiliformis Curculigo sumatrana Veratrum mairei Leucojum capitulatum Molineria capitulata Molineria sumatrana Molineria sulcata Curculigo fuziwarae Tupistra esquirolii Molineria plicata Molineria recurvata
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