Taxon: Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B. L. Burtt & R. M. Sm.

Genus:

Alpinia

Family:

Zingiberaceae

Subfamily:

Alpinioideae

Tribe:

Alpinieae

Nomen number:

101036

Place of publication:

Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 31(2):204. 1972

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

22-oct-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 19-sep-2017

Species priority site is:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(=) Alpinia speciosa (J. C. Wendl.) K. Schum.
(=) Languas speciosa (J. C. Wendl.) Small
(=) Zerumbet speciosum J. C. Wendl.

Common names:

light galangal (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
pink porcelain-lily (Source: Dict Gard) - English
shellflower (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
shell-ginger (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
jättegalangarot (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Pl Res SEAs 19:63. 1999)
Medicines: folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(2):61. 2001)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China
EASTERN ASIA: Japan

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.e.)
INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
MALESIA: Malaysia

Cultivated

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
INDO-CHINA: Myanmar
MALESIA: Malaysia

Pacific

SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Tonga

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Cuba

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Kool, A. et al. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Lao PDR (on-line resource). (L Laos Online)
Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants (Pl Res SEAs) 19:61-64.
Smith, R. M. 1990. Alpinia (Zingiberaceae): a proposed new infrageneric classification Edinburgh J. Bot. 47:62.
Valkenburg, J. L. C. H. van & N. Bunyapraphatsara, eds. 2001. Medicinal and poisonous plants 2 (Pl Res SEAs) 12(2):61.

Check other web resources for Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B. L. Burtt & R. M. Sm. :

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=101036. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.