''Boesenbergia maxwellii'' is a plant species in the family

Zingiberaceae 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 ...

and tribe

Zingibereae Zingiberoideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Zingiberaceae.Kress JW, Prince LM, Williams KJ (2002) The phylogeny and a new classification of the gingers (Zingiberaceae): evidence from molecular data. ''American Journal of Botany'', 89(10 ...

; its native range is in

Indo-China Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

from Myanmar to Laos.

Description

''B. maxwellii'' is a herb, growing up to tall. The

rhizome In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

is small and approximately spherical, in diameter, with numerous cylindrical tuberous roots. Its leaves are simple and alternate: dimension 300-500 x 150-250 mm. Its flower spikes arise directly from the rhizome; individual flowers are horn-shaped, up to long. The flowers are white with a light labellum and dark pink- purple, sometimes with an orange base. Flowering (in Thailand) is in June–August.BGO Plant Databases, The Botanical Garden Organization, Thailand
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q55605686 Zingiberoideae Flora of Indo-China