Amomum
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Amomum is a genus of plants containing about 111 species native to China, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Queensland.Template:R[1] It includes several species of cardamom. Plants of this genus are remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties.[2][3]
Among ancient writers, the name amomum was ascribed to various odoriferous plants that cannot be positively identified today. The word derives from Latin amomum,[4] which is the latinisation of the Greek ἄμωμον (amomon), a kind of an Indian spice plant.[5] Edmund Roberts noted on his 1834 trip to China that amomum was used as a spice to "season sweet dishes" in culinary practice.[6]
Selected species
See list of Amomum species for a complete list.
The following have further information:
- Amomum exertum
- Amomum smithiae
- Amomum subulatum (black cardamom) - type species
Formerly placed here
- Amomum compactum – now Wurfbainia compactaTemplate:R
- Amomum costatum – now Hornstedtia costataTemplate:R
- Amomum dallachyi – now Meistera dallachyiTemplate:R
- Amomum elegans – now Wurfbainia elegansTemplate:R
- Amomum ensal – now Elettaria cardamomumTemplate:R
- Amomum epiphyticum – now Epiamomum epiphyticumTemplate:R
- Amomum filiforme – now Hedychium coronariumTemplate:R
- Amomum melegueta – now Aframomum meleguetaTemplate:R
- Amomum mioga – now Zingiber miogaTemplate:R
- Amomum ovoideum – now Wurfbainia uliginosaTemplate:R
- Amomum pulchellum – now Cyphostigma pulchellumTemplate:R
- Amomum repens – now Renealmia alpiniaTemplate:R
- Amomum robustum – now Wurfbainia uliginosaTemplate:R
- Amomum tsao-ko – now Lanxangia tsaokoTemplate:R
- Amomum uliginosum – now Wurfbainia uliginosaTemplate:R
- Amomum uncinatum – now Elettaria cardamomumTemplate:R
- Amomum villosum – now Wurfbainia villosaTemplate:R
- Amomum zambesiacum – now Aframomum zambesiacumTemplate:R
References
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- ↑ Flora of China v 24 p 347, 豆蔻属 dou kou shu, Amomum Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 75. 1820.
- ↑ Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
- ↑ Lamxay, V. & Newman, M.F. (2012). A revision of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 69: 99-206.
- ↑ amomum, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, on Perseus Digital Library
- ↑ ἄμωμον, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library
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