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 Latin nameKaempferia rotunda L.
 FamilyZingiberaceae
 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 infoAn 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 occurrencebhūmicampakā, bhūcampakā, hallaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageKaempferia 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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