Plant Details

Accepted name:: Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) Burtt [Zingiberaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aane dumparaasme	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
alan	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
bawnkawr	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
betta shunthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
doyak	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
galingale	Other	Med. Pl. used by Deb Barma Clan in Bangladesh (Kabir et al., 2014)
giri-kulimjan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hei guo shan jiang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
jangliada	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
kelaniya	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
mala-inschi-kua	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malainschikua	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malayinchikkuva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malayincikkuva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malayinjikkuva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tara	Other	Med. Pl. used by Deb Barma Clan in Bangladesh (Kabir et al., 2014)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Alpinia allughas (Retz.) Roscoe Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 346 (1807).
Zingiber nigrum Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 35 (1788).
Alpinia bilamellata Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 1: 51 (1902).
Amomum bifidum Stokes Bot. Comm.: 163 (1830).
Amomum nigrum (Gaertn.) Raeusch. Nomencl. Bot. Pl. Illustr., ed. 3: 1 (1797).
Amomum taraca Horan. Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.: 30 (1862).
Hellenia allughas (Retz.) Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 1: 4 (1797).
Heritiera allughas Retz. Observ. Bot. 6: 17 (1791).
Languas allughas (Retz.) Burkill Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1935: 317 (1935).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alpinia allhugas Roscoe	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Alpinia allughas Roscoe	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Alpinia nigra	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) B. L. Burtt	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) Burtt	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) Burtt.	Med. Pl. used by Deb Barma Clan in Bangladesh (Kabir et al., 2014)
Alpinia nigra (Gaertner) B.L. Burtt	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Zingiber nigrum Gaertner	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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