Curcuma
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Curcuma

curcuma
east indian arrowroot
mango ginger
turmeric
zedoary

Hierarchical position of the Genus Curcuma

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Zingiberidae Cronquist
pub. 1978
  
   SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb.
pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.
  
   Familia  Strelitziaceae (K. Schum.) Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 72. 1934.
common name: Bird-of-Paradises
  
   Subfamilia  Curcumoideae Raf.
pub. Fl. Tellur. 4: 52. medio 1838.
  
   Genus  Curcuma L.
pub. (1753)
common name: curcuma
  

Named members of the Genus Curcuma

1
   Species  amada Roxb.
common name: mango ginger
  
2
   Species  angustifolia Roxb.
common name: east indian arrowroot
3
   Species  aromatica Salisb.
common name: curcuma
4
   Species  domestica Val.
syn. Curcuma longa
common name: turmeric
  
5
   Species  longa L.
common name: turmeric, jiang huang  (Chinese), haldi  (Hindi)
  
6
   Species  zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe
common name: zedoary, keshari  (Nepali)
  

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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