Hitchenia

Hitchenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Zingiberaceae
Subfamily:	Zingiberoideae
Tribe:	Zingibereae
Genus:	Hitchenia; Wall.
Species:	H. glauca
Binomial name
	Hitchenia glauca; Wall.
Synonyms
	Dischema glaucum (Wall.) Voigt;

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Hitchenia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains only one recognized species, Hitchenia glauca, endemic to Myanmar (Burma).^[1] The plant, which is called malaphu (မာလာဖူး) in Burmese, is used as an herb in Burmese cuisine.^[2]

A few other species were formerly included in Hitchenia but have been moved to other genera:^[1]

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.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
↑ "ဆေးဖက်ဝင်တဲ့ မာလာဖူး ရဲ့ အကျိုးအာနိသင်" (in my). https://www.mdn.gov.mm/my/chephkwngttai-maalaaphuu-rai-akiuaaanisng.

External links

Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, Hitchenia glauca 'Rangoon Beauty' photo

Wikidata ☰ Q3015175 entry

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[kew-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

[2] "ဆေးဖက်ဝင်တဲ့ မာလာဖူး ရဲ့ အကျိုးအာနိသင်" (in my). https://www.mdn.gov.mm/my/chephkwngttai-maalaaphuu-rai-akiuaaanisng.