Curcuma glauca

Curcuma glauca is a species of flowering plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is a rhizomatous geophyte endemic to Myanmar.^[1] The plant, which is called malaphu (မာလာဖူး) in Burmese, is used as an herb in Burmese cuisine.^[2]

Curcuma glauca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Zingiberaceae
Subfamily:	Zingiberoideae
Tribe:	Zingibereae
Genus:	Curcuma
Species:	C. glauca
Binomial name
Curcuma glauca (Wall.) Škorničk. (2015)
Synonyms[1]
Curcuma glaucophylla Wall. (1832), nom. nud. Dischema glaucum (Wall.) Voigt (1845) Hitchenia glauca Wall. (1834 publ. 1835)

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Hitchenia glauca by Nathaniel Wallich in 1835.^[1] The genus Hitchenia has now been subsumed into Curcuma,^[3] with some species now included in other genera.^[4]

• Hitchenia careyana Benth. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker = Larsenianthus careyanus (Benth.) W.J.Kress & Mood
• Hitchenia caulina (J.Graham) Baker = Curcuma caulina J.Graham
• Hitchenia musacea Baker = Stachyphrynium latifolium (Blume) K.Schum.
• Hitchenia roscoeana (Wall.) Benth. & Hook.f. = Curcuma roscoeana Wall.

Curcuma and Larsenianthus are in the family Zingiberaceae, but Stachyphrynium is in Marantaceae.