• Scientific Name: Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe
• Ref: Monandr. Pl. Scitam. t. 50. 1824.
• Synonyms:
  Hedychium emeiense Z. Y. Zhu;
  H. panzhuum Z. Y. Zhu.
• English Common Name: Yellow Ginger Lily, cream garland-lily
• Chinese Common Name: 峨眉姜花 e mei jiang hua
• Japanese Common Name:
• Family: Zingiberaceae
• Genus: Hedychium
• Distribution: Forests; 500–800 m. Sichuan [India, Nepal].
• Type:‎India. It was sent by Dr. Carey, from Serampore, to the Botanic Garden in Liverpool, in 1821, and flowered there in October 1822

 Pseudostems 1--2 m. Leaves sessile; leaf sheath slightly pubescent; ligule 3--5 cm, membranous; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, 20--50 × 4--10 cm, abaxially pubescent, base attenuate, margin membranous, apex caudate-acuminate. Spikes oblong, 15--20 × 3--6 cm; bracts imbricate, oblong to ovate, 3--4.5 × 2--4 cm, concave, 4- or 5-flowered; bracteoles tubular, membranous. Flowers yellow or yellow-white, fragrant. Calyx 3.5--4 cm, split on 1 side, apical margin entire. Corolla tube 7--8.5 cm, slender; lobes linear, 3--3.5 cm. Lateral staminodes wider than corolla lobes. Labellum erect, creamy yellow with an orange patch at base, obcordate, longer than wide, apex 2-lobed. Filament subequaling labellum. Ovary hairy. Stigma funnelform, margin bearded. Fl. Jul--Sep. 2 n = 34.(Flora of China)

Monandr. Pl. Scitam. t. 50