Zingiber officinale

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zingiberales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Zingiberales

Familia: Zingiberaceae
Subfamilia: Zingiberoideae
Tribus: Zingibereae
Genus: Zingiber
Species: Zingiber officinale

Name

Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 348 (1807).

Synonyms

Replaced synonym
- Amomum zingiber L., Sp. Pl. 1: 1 (1753).
Homotypic
- Amomum angustifolium Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 4 (1796), nom. illeg..
- Zingiber zingiber (L.) H.Karst., Deut. Fl.: 471 (1880), nom. inval.
Heterotypic
- Amomum zinziba Hill, Veg. Syst., ed. 16: 50 (1770).
- Zingiber aromaticum Noronha, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 28 (1790).
- Zingiber missionis Wall. in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 6: 246 (1892).
- Zingiber officinale var. cholmondeleyi F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 6: 498 (1900).
  - Zingiber cholmondeleyi (F.M.Bailey) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 46: 172 (1904).
- Zingiber officinale var. macrorhizonum Makino, J. Jap. Bot. 8: 45 (1933).
  - Zingiber officinale f. macrorhizonum (Makino) M.Hiroe, Pl. Basho's & Buson's Hokku Lit. 8: 258 (1971).
- Zingiber officinale var. rubens Makino, J. Jap. Bot. 8: 45 (1933).
  - Zingiber officinale f. rubens (Makino) M.Hiroe, Pl. Basho's & Buson's Hokku Lit. 8: 258 (1971).
- Zingiber sichuanense Z.Y.Zhu, S.L.Zhang & S.X.Chen, Bull. Sichuan School Chin. Met. Med. 1987(1): 39 (1987).
  - Zingiber officinale var. sichuanense (Z.Y.Zhu, S.L.Zhang & S.X.Chen) Z.Y.Zhu, S.L.Zhang & S.X.Chen, Fl. Sichuanica 10: 624 (1992).
- Zingiber officinale var. rubrum Theilade, Gard. Bull. Singapore 48: 218 (1996 publ. 1998).
- Zingiber sianginensis Tatum & A.K.Das, Pleione 10@ 169 (2016).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa (introduced)
- Regional: West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Gulf of Guinea Islands.
- Regional: Western Indian Ocean
  - Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, Rodrigues.
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: China
  - China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast.
- Regional: Eastern Asia
  - Japan, Korea (introduced, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan.
Continental: Asia-Tropical
- Regional: Indian Subcontinent
  - Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya.
- Regional: Indo-China
  - Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam.
- Regional: Malesia
  - Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands (introduced), Malaya, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera.
- Regional: Papuasia
  - New Guinea.
Continental: Australasia
- Regional: Australia
  - Queensland (introduced).
Continental: Pacific (introduced)
- Regional: Southwestern Pacific
  - Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Wallis-Futuna Islands.
- Regional: South-Central Pacific
  - Cook Islands, Pitcairn Islands.
- Regional: North-Central Pacific
  - Hawaii.
Continental: Northern America (introduced)
- Regional: Southeastern U.S.A.
  - Florida.
- Regional: Mexico
  - Mexico Southwest.
Continental: Southern America
- Regional: Central America
  - Costa Rica, Honduras.
- Regional: Caribbean
  - Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Islands.