Taxon:
Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton var. cardamomum
Summary
Verified:
08/04/1986
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. Flora of Java. 1963-1968
- 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 Note: = Elettaria cardamomum
- Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
- Guzman, C. C. de & J. S. Siemonsma, eds. 1999. Spices. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 13:118. http://proseanet.org
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996 121-122. Note: = Elettaria cardamomum
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
- 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
- Parham, J. W. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed. 1972
- 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, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). http://www.botanicalbeads.com/
Common names
English
cardamom – Chester cardamom – Malabar cardamom – Mysore cardamom – small cardamom – French
cardamome – cardamomier – German
Kardamompflanze – Malabar-Kardamom – Italian
cardamomo – Portuguese (Brazil)
cárdamomo – cardamão – Spanish
cardamomo – Transcribed Chinese
dou kou hua –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. elsewhere |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Uganda | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Madagascar | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Korea | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Papua New Guinea | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Mesoamerica | El Salvador | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
Cultivated
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Tanzania, Uganda
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WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Madagascar
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China
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EASTERN ASIA:
Korea
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Sri Lanka
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INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Cuba
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MESOAMERICA:
Guatemala, El Salvador
Economic Uses
Food additives
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_40.html,) – Medicines
folklore (fide Ency CNatIn, as E. cardamom; CRC MedHerbs ed2, as E. cardamom; Herbs Commerce ed2) –