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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Alpinia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Alpinia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Zingiberidae Cronquist pub. 1978       SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb. pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.       Familia  Strelitziaceae (K. Schum.) Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 72. 1934. common name: Bird-of-Paradises       Subfamilia  Alpinioideae Link pub. Handbuch 1: 228. Jan-Aug 1829.       Tribus  Alpinieae A. Rich. in Orb. pub. Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat. 1: 299. 18 Dec 1841.       Genus  Alpinia Roxb. pub. (1810) common name: alpinia

Named members of the Genus Alpinia

1	Species  antillarua auct. non Roemer & J.A. Schultes syn. Renealmia jamaicensis var. puberula
2	Species  aromatica Aubl. syn. Renealmia occidentalis
3	Species  exaltata (L. f.) Roemer & J.A. Schultes syn. Renealmia alpinia
4	Species  galanga (L.) Sw. common name: greater galangal
5	Species  jamaicensis Gaertn. p.p. syn. Renealmia jamaicensis var. puberula
6	Species  mutica Roxb. common name: small shell ginger
7	Species  occidentalis Sw. syn. Renealmia occidentalis
8	Species  officinarum Hance common name: lesser galangal, gao liang  (Chinese), galingal
9	Species  purpurata (Vieill.) K. Schum. common name: red ginger
10	Species  speciosa (Wendl.) K. Schum. syn. Alpinia zerumbet
11	Species  spicata Jacq. syn. Costus spicatus
12	Species  zerumbet (Pers.) Burtt & R.M. Sm. common name: shellplant

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.