Plant Details

Accepted name:: Alpinia japonica (Thunb.) Miq. [Zingiberaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
hana-myoga	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
山姜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
建砂仁	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Globba japonica Thunb. in J.A.Murray (ed.), Syst. Veg., ed. 14.: 73 (1784).
Languas japonica (Thunb.) Sasaki Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 14(74): 22 (1924).
Alpinia agiokuensis Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 9: 118 (1920).
Alpinia japonica var. kiushiana (Kitam.) H.Ohba Fl. Japan 4b: 188 (2016).
Alpinia kiushiana Kitam. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 59: 37 (1946).
Languas agiokuensis (Hayata) Sasaki Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 14(74): 22 (1924).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alpinia japonica	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Alpinia japonica (Thunb.) Miq.	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Alpinia japonica (Thunberg) Miquel	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Alpinia japonica (Tunb.) Miq.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Alpinia japonica Miq.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Alpinia japonica Miquel	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Alpiniajaponica (Thunb.) Miq.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Globba japonica Thunb.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Languas japonica (Thunb.) Sasaki	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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