Curcuma Roscoeana is a plant of the Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising ca. 52 genera and more than 1300 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.Many species are important...

 or ginger

Ginger

Ginger is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family . Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal....

 family.

It is native to Burma, India, Southeast Asia and Malaysia; its wild habitat is threatened.

Average height 2-3 feet. Flowers сone-shaped, bright orange or yellow, 4-5 inches. Blooms summer, fall. Bract

Bract

In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or cone scale. Bracts are often different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of a different color, shape, or texture...

s peach-orange to dark read-orange. Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic, light green with darker veins, up to 12 inches long.

It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for its beautiful flowers. It is one of the most popular curcumas.

Synonyms include: Curcuma kurzii King ex Baker; Curcuma coccinea Wall. ex Baker, nom. nud.

Nomen nudum

The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...

; Hitchenia roscoeana Wall.; Hitcheniopsis roscoeana Wall.