Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) Burtt
First published in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 35: 213 (1977)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Indian Subcontinent to China (S. Yunnan). It is a rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Sri Lanka, Thailand
Introduced into:
Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Kazan-retto, Ogasawara-shoto
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Amomum nigrum (Gaertn.) Raeusch. in Nomencl. Bot. Pl. Illustr., ed. 3: 1 (1797)
- Zingiber nigrum Gaertn. in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 35 (1788)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Alpinia allughas (Retz.) Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 346 (1807)
- Alpinia bilamellata Makino in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 1: 51 (1902)
- Amomum bifidum Stokes in Bot. Comm.: 163 (1830)
- Amomum taraca Horan. in Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.: 30 (1862)
- Hellenia allughas (Retz.) Willd. in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 1: 4 (1797)
- Heritiera allughas Retz. in Observ. Bot. 6: 17 (1791)
- Languas allughas (Retz.) Burkill in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1935: 317 (1935)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
- Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
- Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
- Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 6571] | Alpinia allughas | K001124216 | Yes | ||
| s.coll. [Cat. no. 6571], India | Alpinia allughas | K001124215 | Yes | ||
| Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 6571], Myanmar | Alpinia allughas | K001124219 | Yes | ||
| s.coll. [Cat. no. 6571] | Alpinia allughas | K001124217 | Yes | ||
| Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 6571], Myanmar | Alpinia allughas | K001124218 | Yes | ||
| s.coll. [Cat. no. 6571] | Alpinia allughas | K001124220 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images