Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Hance) K.Larsen

 Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Hance) K.Larsen, Bot. Tidsskr. 60: 177 (1964).

Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Hance) K.Larsen; Photo James Ojascastro

Vietnamese name: 

Trục Thiền liền.

Chinese name: 

黄花大苞姜 huang hua da bao jiang 

English name:

Latin name: 

Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Hance) K.Larsen

Family: 

Zingiberaceae 

Synonym name:

Kaempferia coenobialis (Hance) C.H.Wright

Monolophus coenobialis Hance

Roscoea flava Merr.

Description: 

Plants slender, tufted. Pseudostems 15--30 cm × ca. 3 mm. Leaves 5--9, sessile or shortly petiolate, basal ones smaller than apical; leaf blade lanceolate, 5--14 × 1--2 cm, thin, glabrous, base acute, apex long caudate-acuminate. Bracts 2 or 3, 3--5 cm, 1- or 2-flowered. Calyx 1--1.5 cm, persistent. Corolla yellow; tube ca. 3 cm; lobes lanceolate, ca. 1 cm. Lateral staminodes elliptic, ca. 1.2 cm. Labellum yellow, broadly ovate, ca. 1.5 × 2 cm. Filament very short; anther ca. 3 mm; connective crest oblong, ca. 4 mm. Capsule ovoid-oblong, ca. 1 cm. Seeds ellipsoid-ovoid. 2 n = 24*. 

Flower and fruid season: 

Flower April-July, fruid August.

Distribution: 

This species is distributed in China (Guangdong, Guangxi) and Vietnam. In VietNam, found in  Fansipan.

Ecological: 

Forest floors; below 2500 m.

Uses: 

The pollenkitt in Caulokaempferia coenobialis is clear and rich in unsaturated lipids. Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- efloras.org

- ipni.org