Taxon: Alpinia officinarum Hance

Genus:

Alpinia

Family:

Zingiberaceae

Subfamily:

Alpinioideae

Tribe:

Alpinieae

Nomen number:

101035

Place of publication:

J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13:6. 1873

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

22-oct-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 22-oct-1997

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(≡) Languas officinarum (Hance) Farw.

Common names:

Chinese-ginger (Source: HerbSpices) - English
lesser galanga (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2) - English
lesser galangal (Source: HerbSpices) - English
galangal officinal (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
petite galanga (Source: HerbSpices) - French
Galgant (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
galanga (Source: HerbSpices) - Italian
galangal (Source: HerbSpices) - Spanish
liten galangarot (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Food additives: flavoring (spice from dried rhizome fide Food Feed Crops US)
Materials: essential oils (fide Herb Spices 2:199. 1987)
Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China [Guangdong, Guangxi]

Cultivated

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China
EASTERN ASIA: Japan

Asia-Tropical

INDO-CHINA: Thailand, Vietnam

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- (F China)
Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. 1986-1987 (HerbSpices) 2:199.
Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency)
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Alpinia officinarum Hance :

TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=101035. Accessed 25 abril 2024.