Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

An indigenous large herb widely cultivated. Wild specimens rare. The seeds provide the cardamom of commerce.  

The root ginger of commerce which is widely used as a spice or as a medicine in traditional medicine. Country of origin unknown. Cultivated ...

  An indigenous herb of the dry zone. Flowers produced before, or with developing leaves from the base of a new leaf shoot. One flower openi...

                         A large herb common by streams in moist areas up to 1800 m elevations. Native to Northeast India . Introduced or pe...

An introduced herb native to the India . Cultivated in gardens.

Rather rare endemic herb occurs in wet lowland forests, often close to streams and rivers. Flowering from February to June. 

Native large herb of India and Malaysia . Perhaps also native to the  Sri Lanka *. Cultivated and also naturalized in the wet lowl...

Native plant of Malaysia . Cultivated occasionally in home gardens, especially in Kandy and Peradeniya area.

Cultivated and naturalized herb in Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia .Country of origin unknown. The rhizome is used in medicinally and...

A perennial herb with leafy stem cultivated throughout the island and sometime naturalized. Flowering from February to October. Used me...

Large endemic herb specimens collected so far only from few places of the Kandy district ( Flora of Ceylon Vol 4 ). It grows in moist for...

An indigenous large herb grows in the hill country forests. Flowering from February to November.

Native plant of  India . Widely cultivated in  Sri Lanka . Flowering from August to September.

Large herb with flowering in most of the year. Introduced from its native countries probably of  Malaysia   or Pacific islands and widely ...