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The genus Curcuma is in the family Zingiberaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Curcuma

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma albiflora Thwaites	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma alismatifolia Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma amada Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma amarissima Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma angustifolia Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma antinaia Chaveer. & Tanee	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma aromatica Salisb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma attenuata Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma aurantiaca Zijp	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma australasica Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma bakeriana Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma bhatii (R.M.Sm.) Škorničk. & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma bicolor Mood & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma caesia Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma cannanorensis R.Ansari, V.J.Nair & N.C.Nair	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma caulina J.Graham	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma ceratotheca K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma chuanyujin C.K.Hsieh & Hao Zhang	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma cochinchinensis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma codonantha Škorničk., M.Sabu & Prasanthk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma coerulea K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma colorata Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma comosa Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma coriacea Mangaly & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma decipiens Dalzell	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma ecomata Craib	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma elata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma euchroma Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma exigua N.Liu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma ferruginea Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma flaviflora S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma glans K.Larsen & Mood	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma gracillima Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma grandiflora Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma haritha Mangaly & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma harmandii Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma heyneana Valeton & Zijp	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma inodora Blatt.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma karnatakensis Amalraj, Velay. & Mural.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma kudagensis Velay., V.S.Pillai & Amalraj	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma kwangsiensis S.G.Lee & C.F.Liang	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma larsenii Maknoi & Jenjitt.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma latiflora Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma latifolia Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma leucorrhiza Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma loerzingii Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma longa L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma longispica Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma mangga Valeton & Zijp	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma meraukensis Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma montana Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma mutabilis Škorničk., M.Sabu & Prasanthk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma nankunshanensis N.Liu, X.B.Ye & Juan Chen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma neilgherrensis Wight	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma oligantha Trimen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma ornata Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma pambrosima Škorničk. & N.S.Lý	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma parviflora Wall.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma parvula Gage	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma petiolata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma phaeocaulis Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma picta Roxb. ex Škorničk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma pierreana Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma plicata Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma porphyrotaenia Zipp. ex Span.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma prakasha S.Tripathi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma pseudomontana J.Graham	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma purpurascens Blume	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma reclinata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma rhabdota Sirirugsa & M.F.Newman	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma rhomba Mood & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma roscoeana Wall.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma rubescens Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma rubrobracteata Škorničk., M.Sabu & Prasanthk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma sattayasaii A. Chav. & Sudmoon	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Curcuma sattayasaiorum Chaveer. & Sudmoon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma scaposa (Nimmo) Škorničk. & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma sessilis Gage	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma sichuanensis X.X.Chen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma singularis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma sparganiifolia Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma stenochila Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma strobilifera Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma sumatrana Miq.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma sylvatica Valeton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma thorelii Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma trichosantha Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma vamana M.Sabu & Mangaly	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma viridiflora Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma vitellina Škorničk. & H.Ð.Trần	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma yunnanensis N.Liu & S.J.Chen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma zanthorrhiza Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma zedoarioides Chaveer. & Tanee	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Curcuma zedoaroides A. Chav. & Tanee	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 154 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Curcuma. Of these 93 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Curcuma. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 154 species names for the genus Curcuma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	93	60.4%
◕	Synonym	58	37.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.9%

All names

The status of the 161 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Curcuma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	93	57.8%
◕	Synonym	65	40.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.9%

Of the species names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 154 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Curcuma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	93	56	0	0	149	96.8%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	3	3	1.9%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Curcuma is as follows: