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.[1]Template:R/superscript[2] It includes several species of cardamom. Plants of this genus are remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties.[3][4]
Among ancient writers, the name amomum was ascribed to various odoriferous plants that cannot be positively identified today. The word derives from Latin amomum,[5] which is the latinisation of the Greek ἄμωμον (amomon), a kind of an Indian spice plant.[6] Edmund Roberts noted on his 1834 trip to China that amomum was used as a spice to "season sweet dishes" in culinary practice.[7]
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 compacta[8]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum costatum – now Hornstedtia costata[9]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum dallachyi – now Meistera dallachyi[10]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum elegans – now Wurfbainia elegans[11]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum ensal – now Elettaria cardamomum[12]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum epiphyticum – now Epiamomum epiphyticum[13]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum filiforme – now Hedychium coronarium[14]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum melegueta – now Aframomum melegueta[15]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum mioga – now Zingiber mioga[16]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum ovoideum – now Wurfbainia uliginosa[17]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum pulchellum – now Cyphostigma pulchellum[18]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum repens – now Renealmia alpinia[19]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum robustum – now Wurfbainia uliginosa[20]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum tsao-ko – now Lanxangia tsaoko[21]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum uliginosum – now Wurfbainia uliginosa[22]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum uncinatum – now Elettaria cardamomum[23]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum villosum – now Wurfbainia villosa[24]Template:R/superscript
- Amomum zambesiacum – now Aframomum zambesiacum[25]Template:R/superscript
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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