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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Curcuma

Hierarchical position of the Genus Curcuma

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  Curcumoideae Raf. pub. Fl. Tellur. 4: 52. medio 1838.       Genus  Curcuma L. pub. (1753) common name: curcuma

Named members of the Genus Curcuma

1	Species  amada Roxb. common name: mango ginger
2	Species  angustifolia Roxb. common name: east indian arrowroot
3	Species  aromatica Salisb. common name: curcuma
4	Species  domestica Val. syn. Curcuma longa common name: turmeric
5	Species  longa L. common name: turmeric, jiang huang  (Chinese), haldi  (Hindi)
6	Species  zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe common name: zedoary, keshari  (Nepali)

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.