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Shell Gingers
Alpinia
Alpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is named for Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropical and subtropical climates. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants. Species of the genus are known generally as shell ginger.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Red Ginger
speciesAlpinia purpurata
Shell ginger
speciesAlpinia zerumbet
Gagnep
speciesAlpinia intermedia
Alpinia uraiensis
speciesAlpinia uraiensis
Native Ginger
speciesAlpinia caerulea
Galangal
speciesAlpinia galanga
Hainan Galangal
speciesAlpinia hainanensis
Alpinia pricei
speciesAlpinia pricei
Japanese Galangal
speciesAlpinia japonica
Alpinia shimadae
speciesAlpinia shimadae
Alpinia sessiliflora
speciesAlpinia sessiliflora
dwarf ginger
speciesAlpinia arundelliana
Alpinia koshunensis
speciesAlpinia koshunensis
Alpinia oblongifolia
speciesAlpinia oblongifolia
Alpinia kawakamii
speciesAlpinia kawakamii
Shell Ginger
speciesAlpinia nutans
Alpinia flabellata
speciesAlpinia flabellata
Alpinia mutica
speciesAlpinia mutica
Alpinia stachyodes
speciesAlpinia stachyodes
Narrow-Leaved Ginger
speciesAlpinia modesta
pleated ginger
speciesAlpinia arctiflora
Indian Ginger
speciesAlpinia calcarata
Alpinia aquatica
speciesAlpinia aquatica
Alpinia formosana
speciesAlpinia formosana
Lesser Galangal
speciesAlpinia officinarum
Alpinia vittata
speciesAlpinia vittata
Alpinia conchigera
speciesAlpinia conchigera
Alpinia boia
speciesAlpinia boia
Alpinia nantoensis
speciesAlpinia nantoensis
Alpinia oxyphylla
speciesAlpinia oxyphylla
Alpinia oxymitra
speciesAlpinia oxymitra
Alpinia malaccensis
speciesAlpinia malaccensis
Alpinia × ilanensis
hybridAlpinia × ilanensis
Alpinia tonrokuensis
speciesAlpinia tonrokuensis
Allugha Galangal
speciesAlpinia nigra
Alpinia abundiflora
speciesAlpinia abundiflora
Alpinia pumila
speciesAlpinia pumila
Alpinia haenkei
speciesAlpinia haenkei
Alpinia mesanthera
speciesAlpinia mesanthera
Chinese Galangal
speciesAlpinia chinensis
Alpinia maclurei
speciesAlpinia maclurei
Alpinia kusshakuensis
speciesAlpinia kusshakuensis
Alpinia hylandii
speciesAlpinia hylandii
Alpinia oui
speciesAlpinia oui
Alpinia scabra
speciesAlpinia scabra
Alpinia calcicola
speciesAlpinia calcicola
Alpinia havilandii
speciesAlpinia havilandii
Alpinia luteocarpa
speciesAlpinia luteocarpa
Alpinia nieuwenhuizii
speciesAlpinia nieuwenhuizii
Alpinia elegans
speciesAlpinia elegans
Alpinia cumingii
speciesAlpinia cumingii
Alpinia roxburghii
speciesAlpinia roxburghii
Alpinia coeruleoviridis
speciesAlpinia coeruleoviridis
Giant Caroline island ginger
speciesAlpinia carolinensis
Alpinia siamensis
speciesAlpinia siamensis
Alpinia jianganfeng
speciesAlpinia jianganfeng
Alpinia conghuaensis
speciesAlpinia conghuaensis
Alpinia petiolata
speciesAlpinia petiolata
Alpinia platychilus
speciesAlpinia platychilus
Alpinia laosensis
speciesAlpinia laosensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Maria Sibylla Merian — Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium (1719)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1719 · p.152
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 2 (Hortus Indicus Malabaricus)
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.178
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.200
Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.90
Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.93
Sancai Tuhui (Vol. 96)
王圻, 王思義 · 1607 · p.30
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 2 (Hortus Indicus Malabaricus)
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.181
A key to physic, and the occult sciences
Sibly, Ebenezer · 1810 · p.604
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 24)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.127
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 24)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.74
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123736.