Taxon: Amomum subulatum Roxb.

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Common names:

• Bengal cardamom   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 13:246.) – English
  
• greater cardamom   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 13:246.) – English
  
• hill cardamom   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• Indian cardamom   (Source: F Bhutan ) – English
  
• Nepal cardamom   (Source: F Bhutan ) – English
  
• winged cardamom   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 13:246.) – English
  
• xiang dou kou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• nepalkardemumma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide F Bhutan)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Wealth India RM ed2)
  
• Social: masticatory   (fide F Bhutan)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangxi, Xizang, Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India - Assam, Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal
  Indo-China: Myanmar

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1985–1992. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials (revised edition). New Delhi.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Guzman, C. C. de & J. S. Siemonsma, eds. 1999. Spices. P. 13:246 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Amomum subulatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Amomum subulatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Amomum subulatum.

Check other web resources for Amomum subulatum Roxb.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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