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Taxon: Aframomum corrorima (A. Braun) P. C. M. Jansen

Genus: Aframomum
Family: Zingiberaceae subfamily: Alpinioideae tribe: Alpinieae.
Nomen number: 462945
Place of publication: Belmontia, N.S. 12:10. 1981 (Spices, condiments & medic. pl. Ethiopia, Agric. Res. Rep. 906:10. 1981)
Name verified on: 09-Apr-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-Apr-2011
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • Ethiopian cardamom   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  • false cardamom   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  • korarima   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  • cardamome d'Ethiopie   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • korarima   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • poivre d'Ethiopie   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French

Economic importance:

  • Food additives: flavoring   (fide PROTABASE)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia [w.]; Sudan [s.w.]
    East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda [w.]

      Cultivated:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia

References:

More:

Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Aframomum corrorima (A. Braun) P. C. M. Jansen:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • 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
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?462945 (23 May 2013)

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