Rhizome - Specimen details

Rhizome - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 37159

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Plant Name 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Zingiber macrostachyum Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Rhizome Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Rhizome Geography Description India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical
Uses RhizomeUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 30 A 8
Donor Date Donor Notes India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A
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Notes: Label source: A plant resembling ginger, but larger. Stem and under surface of leaves pubescent, spikes several, with long peduncles. Flowers yellowish white, middle lobe of lip marked with diverging purple lines. Fruit obvate, pubescent, red, about 1/2i, nch long. Rhizome 1 to 2 inches in diameter when fresh-jointed, compressed, with numerous radicles, each joint furnished with a bud. Epidermis scaly, light brown. Cut surface of the fresh root a rich golden yellow. Odour powerful, like a mixture of campho, r and turmeric; taste hot and camphoraceous. Under the microscope the epidermis is seen to formed of many layers of compressed and obliterated cells. The parenchyma consists of large polyhedral cells; those in the cortical portion of the root are nearly f, ree from starch, but those in the central portion are filled with large oviovoid starch granules. In all parts of the rhizome large cells full of a golden yellow essential oil abound. The vascular systen resembles that of turmeric. Neesun is commomin the, Konkon and is a popular remedy in diarrhoea and colic.

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