Plant Details

Accepted name:: Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm. [Zingiberaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chitharaththai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cirraraddai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cirrarattai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dumaraasme	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dumbaraashtaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dumbaraasme	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dumbarashtaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dwarf cardamom	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
jättegalangarot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kastazerambet	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ligandh-tora	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
light galangal	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
nag-damani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pink porcelain-lily	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
puna-champa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shell ginger	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shell-ginger	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
shellflower	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
shellplant	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sit-ruthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sittarattai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sthulagranthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
the light galangal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vindicá	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2021)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Alpinia speciosa (J.C.Wendl.) K.Schum. Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land: 29 (1889), nom. illeg.
Catimbium speciosum (J.C.Wendl.) Holttum Gard. Bull. Singapore 13: 152 (1950).
Costus zerumbet Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 3 (1805).
Alpinia cristata Griff. Not. Pl. Asiat. 3: 421 (1851).
Alpinia fimbriata Gagnep. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 51: 447 (1904).
Alpinia fluvitialis Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 5: 227 (1915).
Alpinia nutans var. longiramosa Gagnep. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 48: 87 (1902).
Alpinia penicillata Roscoe Trans. Linn. Soc. London 11: 280 (1816).
Alpinia schumanniana Valeton Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenzorg 20: 84 (1904).
Alpinia speciosa var. longiramosa Gagnep. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 48: 87 (1901).
Amomum nutans (Andrews) Schult. Mant. 1: 40 (1822).
Languas schumanniana (Valeton) Sasaki Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 14(74): 23 (1924).
Languas speciosa (J.C.Wendl.) Small Fl. S.E. U.S., ed. 2: 307 (1913).
Renealmia nutans Andrews Bot. Repos. 5: t. 360 (1804).
Renealmia spectabilis Rusby Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 218 (1927).
Zerumbet speciosum J.C.Wendl. Hort. Herrenhus. 4: 3 (1801).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alpinia speciosa (Wendl.) K.Schum.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Alpinia speciosa K.Schum.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Alpinia speciosa Schum.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015)
Alpinia speciosa Schumann	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Alpinia zerumbet	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B. L. Burtt & R. M. Sm.	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B.L. Burtt & R.M. Sm.	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015)
Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Smith	Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999)
Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) Burtt. & Smith	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Alpinia zerumbet (Persoon) B.L. Burtt & R.M. Smith	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Alpinia zerumbet B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S. Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Alpinia zerumbet Burtt & R.M.Sm.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Catimbium speciosum (J.C.Wendl.) Holttum	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Costus zerumbet Pers	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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