Roscoea cautyloides is a perennial member of the ginger family with orchid-like flowers formed largely from staminodes rather than true petals. It dies back each year to a short, vertical rhizome with tuberous roots. Native to cooler mountainous regions of Asia, it produces its flowering stems in early summer. Flowers appear June to August.

Roscoea cautyloides is a perennial ginger with orchid-like flowers that bloom June to August in cool, open or woodland-edge spots.

Roscoea is a genus of perennial plants of the family Zingiberaceae. While most members of the ginger family are tropical, Roscoea species are native to cooler mountainous regions of the Himalayas, China and its southern neighbours.