Larsenianthus

Larsenianthus W.J.Kress & Mood is a genus in the Zingiberaceae family found in E. Himalaya to Myanmar. It was first described in 2010 in Kress WJ, D Mood J, Sabu M, Prince LM, Dey S, Sanoj E., Larsenianthus, a new Asian genus of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) with four species. PhytoKeys. 2010;(1):15–32. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.1.658

Larsenianthus careyanus (Benth. & Hook.f.) W.J.Kress & Mood native range is E. Himalaya to Myanmar. Source: Plants of the World Online. It has a rhizome, like most of the ginger family. Its common name is Praying Mantis Ginger. Height range: 5-7 ft. Photos from the Wikimedia commons by W. John Kress et. al. (source) and Yercaud Elango (source), respectively, both shared under a CC BY 4.0 licence.