List of Curcuma species occurring in India (including new species)

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Ramesh Chandra Srivastava

Pl contact Dr Ramesh Kumar,Scientist, BSI,Jodhpur.

Subir Bandyopadhyay

Dear Swetha,

You can also contact Dr. Jana Leong-Škorničková

who specializes in world Curcuma spp.

See the following publication:

Back to Types! Towards Stability of Names in Indian Curcuma L. (Zingiberaceae)

Jana Leong-Škorničková, Otakar Šída and Karol Marhold

Taxon Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 2010), pp. 269-282.

Hope this helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Subir.

Swetha Sarangadharan

Thank you, Subir. I have gone through this particular paper. But still, there is confusion regarding the total number of species available in India.

Ramesh Chandra thanks for the suggestion.