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Taxon:
Zingiber officinale
Roscoe
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Zingiber
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Subfamily:
Zingiberoideae
Tribe:
Zingibereae
Nomen number:
42254
Place of publication:
Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8:348. 1807
Verified:
04/01/1999
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Amomum zingiber
L.
No images
Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
Flora of Java. 1963-1968
Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
Flores des Mascareignes. 1976-
Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. 1986-1987
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Encke, F. et al.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Zingiber+officinale&quantity=1
Huxley, A., ed.
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Kala, C. P. et al.
2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conservation 13:459.
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/evolutionary+%26+developmental+biology/journal/10531
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
Li, H. L. et al., eds.
Flora of Taiwan. 1975-1979
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:134.
Newman, M. et al.
2004. Checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Malesia. Blumea Suppl. 16:159.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Smith, A. C.
Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
Theilade, I.
1996. Revision of the genus
Zingiber
in Peninsular Malaysia. Gard. Bull. Singapore 48:217-220.
Note:
with two varieties
Walker, E.
Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. 1976
Zhao, Y.
1998. pers. comm.
Note:
re. common names
Common names
English
ginger –
Reference(s)
French
gingembre –
Reference(s)
German
Ingwer –
Reference(s)
Italian
zenzero –
Reference(s)
Japanese Rōmaji
shoga –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
gengibre –
Reference(s)
Spanish
jengibre –
Reference(s)
Swedish
ingefära –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
jiang –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Korean
saenggang –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
2
Cultivated
widely cult. in tropics
6
Other
probable origin tropical Asia
Cultivated
(widely cult. in tropics)
Other
(probable origin tropical Asia)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Materials
essential oils (used in perfumery fide Ency CNatIn) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
folklore (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses