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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Amomum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Amomum

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  Amomoideae Blume ex Hassk. pub. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor.: 50. Oct 1844.       Tribus  Amomeae Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Tab Diagn. 388, Comm. 291. 17-20 Aug 1842.       Genus  Amomum L. pub. (1753) common name: cardamom

Named members of the Genus Amomum

1	Species  alpinia Rottb. syn. Renealmia alpinia
2	Species  cardamomum L. syn. Elettaria cardamomum
3	Species  compactum Sol. ex Maton common name: round cardamom
4	Species  gracile Blume common name: serkkom
5	Species  kepulaga Sprague & Burkill syn. Amomum compactum
6	Species  zedoaria Christm. syn. Curcuma zedoaria
7	Species  zerumbet L. syn. Zingiber zerumbet
8	Species  zingiber L. syn. Zingiber officinale

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

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