Taxon: Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B. L. Burtt & R. M. Sm.

Common names:

• light galangal   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 19:61.) – English
  
• pink porcelain-lily   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• shell-ginger   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 19:61.) – English
  
• shellflower   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 19:61.) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 19:63. 1999)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.e.]
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Newman, M. et al. 2004. Checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Malesia. Blumea Suppl. 16:35.
• Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 19:61–64.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Smith, R. M. 1990. Edinburgh J. Bot. 47:62.
• Smith, R. M. 1998. Bothalia 28:38–39.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Alpinia zerumbet.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Alpinia zerumbet. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Alpinia speciosa (J. C. Wendl.) K. Schum.
  
• (=) Languas speciosa (J. C. Wendl.) Small
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Zerumbet speciosum J. C. Wendl.
  

Check other databases for Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B. L. Burtt & R. M. Sm.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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