Curcuma parviflora

Botanical Description

Curcuma parviflora is a herbaceous, perennial plant producing clumps of erect, pseudostems up to 50cm tall from an underground rhizome. Each pseudostem is made up of around 4 leaves with blades up to 20cm long and 7cm wide[ 989 Title The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore. Vol. 13 Publication Author Publisher Government Printing Office, Singapore Year 1950 ISBN Description A botanical journal, it includes a treatment of the Zingiberaceae of the Malay Peninsula. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild as a local source of food.