''Curcuma phaeocaulis'' is a species of flowering plant in the

ginger family Zingiberaceae () or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Af ...

. It was first described by

Theodoric Valeton Theodoric Valeton (born 1855 in Groningen - died 1929 in The Hague) was a Dutch botanist. He studied at the University of Groningen and received his doctorate in 1886. In 1893, he began working at the botanical garden in Bogor, Indonesia and man ...

Range

It is native to the Chinese province of

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

. It is cultivated in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan. It is also cultivated in Indonesia and Vietnam.

References

Valeton, 1918 ''In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg , II, 27: 69'' phaeocaulis {{Zingiberales-stub