Latin name | Kaempferia rotunda L. | Family | Zingiberaceae | Identified with (Skt) | bhūmicampakā, bhūcampakā, hallaka | Identified with (Hin) | bhūyīcampā | Identified with (Tam) | nērppiciṉ | Identified with (Mal) | ceṅṅaḻinīṛkkiḻaṅṅu, ceṅṅaḻinīṛkūva | Identified with (Eng) | Indian crocus | Botanical info | An aromatic herb with short stem, growing all over India, leaves few, erect, acuminate, 30 cm long, variegated green above, tinged with purple below flowers fragrant, white, lip purple or lilac in crowded spikes, tuberous rhizome, growing throughout India | Search occurrence | bhūmicampakā, bhūcampakā, hallaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | See plant's image | Kaempferia rotunda L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1293) hallaka, n. the red lotus Hāsy. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2358) nērppiciṉ: False zedoary, Koempferia rotunda
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