Curcuma deliniana, a Rare New Curcuma Species (Zingiberaceae) Previously Misidentified as C. wenyujin
Juan Chen, Hui‐Hong Wang, En‐Wei Tian, Nian‐He Xia · 2026
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Description
Juan Chen, Hui-Hong Wang, En-Wei Tian, and Nian-He Xia name a new plant species in 2026, found in Guangxi in China. The plant is a type of Curcuma, kin to turmeric, and had long been taken for a prized drug species. It grows with thin shoots, narrow leaves, and small flower spikes, and it is sold at times in place of a second drug species.
The team sets out the traits that split it from both look-alikes, from root shape and leaf hairs to bract form and flower parts. Gene trees place it near one kin from seed genes and near the other from leaf genes, with weak backing. Its few wild stands face a fall in grown plants, so the team rates it as at risk. The work helps shops check that raw herbs are what labels claim.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Juan Chen, Hui‐Hong Wang, En‐Wei Tian, Nian‐He Xia |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |