Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lanxangia tsao-ko (Crevost & Lemarié) M.F.Newman & Škorničk. [Zingiberaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amomi tsao-ko fructus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
amomum tsao-ko fruit	Other	Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
cao guo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
caoguo	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
caoguo amomum fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
fructus amomi tsaoko	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
fructus tsaoko	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2005) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ka ko la	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
tsao ko	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
tsao kuo	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
tsao-ko amomum	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tsaoko amomum	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
tsaoko fructus	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
ཀ་ཀོ་ལ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
草果	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Fruit		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Fruit		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
fruit		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
fruit		Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
fruit		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
fruit	well ripe fruit	Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Amomum hongtsaoko C.F.Liang & D.Fang Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16(3): 50 (1978).
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost & Lemarié Cat. Prod. Indochine 1: 300 (1917).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Amomum hongtsaoko C.F.Liang & D.Fang	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost & Lemaire	Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost & Lemarie	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost & Lemarié	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost et Lemaire	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost et Lemarie	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevostet Lemarie	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Amomum tsao-ko Grevost & Lemarié	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Amomum tsaoko Crevost & Lem.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Amomum tsaoko Crevost et Lemaire	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2005)
Amomum tsaoko Crevost et Lemarie	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Amomum tsaoko Crevostet Lemairé	TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Amonmum tsao-ko	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Lanxangia tsao-ko (Crevost & Lemarié) M.F.Newman & Skornick.	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)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.