Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf.
First published in Kulturpflanze 6: 239 (1958)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Assam to China (S. Yunnan) and W. Malesia. It is a rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Andaman Is., Assam, Cambodia, China South-Central, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
Introduced into:
Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Curcuma rotunda L. in Sp. Pl.: 2 (1753)
- Gastrochilus rotundus (L.) Alston in H.Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6(Suppl.): 281 (1931)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Boesenbergia cochinchinensis (Gagnep.) Loes. in H.G.A.Engler, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 15a: 571 (1930)
- Boesenbergia pandurata (Roxb.) Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 316 (1913)
- Gastrochilus panduratus (Roxb.) Ridl. in J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 32: 114 (1899)
- Kaempferia cochinchinensis Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54: 165 (1907)
- Kaempferia ovata Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 351 (1807)
- Kaempferia pandurata Roxb. in Asiat. Res. 11: 328 (1810)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
- Larsen, K. (1996). A prelimanary checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 24: 35-49.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Nguyen, Q.B. (2017). Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 21: 1-489. Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật, Hà Nội.
Kew Species Profiles
- Amy Yap Li Ching, Tang Sook Wah, Mohd Aspollah Sukari, Gwendoline Ee Cheng Lian, Mawardi Rahmani & Kaida Khalid (2007). Characterization of flavonoid derivatives from Boesenbergia rotunda (L.). Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 1: 154-159.
- Contu, S. (2009). Boesenbergia rotunda. Assessment using IUCN Categories and Criteria 3.1 (IUCN 2001). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Delin Wu & Larsen, K. (2010). Zingiberaceae. In: Flora of China.
- Ibrahim, H. & Nugroho, A. (1999). Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf. In: Plant Resources of South-East Asia No. 13. Spices, eds C. C. de Guzman & J. S. Siemonsma, pp. 83-85. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands.
- Ling Jing Jing, Mohamed, M., Rahmat, A. & Abu Bakar, M. F. (2010). Phytochemicals, antioxidant properties and anticancer investigations of the different parts of several gingers [sic] species ( Boesenbergia rotunda, Boesenbergia pulchella var [sic] attenuata and Boesenbergia armeniaca). Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 4: 27-32.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010). The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
- Larsen, K. (1996). A prelimanary checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 24: 35-49.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1986 | Kerr, A.F.G. [332], Thailand | K000481192 | No | ||
Jan 1, 1986 | Kerr, A.F.G. [214], Thailand | K000481197 | No | ||
Jan 1, 1986 | Kurz, W.S. [s.n.], India | K000481252 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1986 | Put [4108], Thailand | K000481190 | No | ||
Jan 1, 1986 | Beusekom, C.F. van [3884], Thailand | K000481194 | No | ||
Jan 1, 1986 | s.coll. [3702], Sri Lanka | K000481254 | No | ||
Scott [s.n.] | K000481250 | No | |||
Lynch, M. [s.n.] | K000481251 | No | |||
Kerr, A.F.G. [6149], Thailand | K000481196 | No | |||
Herbert, W. [5745], Myanmar | K000481253 | No | |||
Herbert, W. [5747], Myanmar | K000481249 | No | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6586] | Kaempferia pandurata | K001124254 | Yes |
Sources
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Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
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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
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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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 Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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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 Species Profiles
- Kew Species Profiles
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0