Zingiber

Zingiber macradenium

Ginger ( Zingiber ) is a genus of flowering plants of the ginger family ( Zingiberaceae ). She comes from the warmer parts of Asia. The best-known representative is the ginger often used as a spice (Zingiber officinale).

Description

In Zingiber species are perennial herbaceous plants. Train the underground, branched and bulbous thickened, often fragrant smelling rhizome as outlasting. The sterile shoots are upright and reached for most species stature heights of 1 to 2 m. The elongated oval, lanceolate to linear leaves are two lines in it.

The inflorescences are pin- or cone-shaped. Usually they are on a short, covered with scaly leaves stems, in some species they also sit almost directly on the rhizome and barely protrude their bracts. The very differently colored in different species bracts of the flowers are dense and overlap like roof tiles. Each bract bears only one flower.

The three-lobed, zygomorphic flowers are whitish in general. The middle lobe ( labellum ) is usually wider than the two side tabs and often split front. The stylus projects in all types well above the stamens and the corolla tube also.

Occurrence

All species are native to the tropical to warm Asia. One type (Zingiber zerumbet ) has been introduced as a ruderal plant in several other tropical areas of the world (America, Africa, Australia). The Real ginger is cultivated in all tropical areas of the world.

Most species are inhabitants of humid forest soils.

System

The genus Zingiber has been called " Zinziber " in 1754 by Philip Miller in The Gardeners Dictionary ... Abridged ..., 4th edition, no. 3 first published. Type species is Zingiber officinale Roscoe.

The genus Zingiber contains 100 to 150 species:

• Zingiber acuminatum Valeton
• Zingiber albiflorum R.M.Sm.
• Zingiber apoense Elmer
• Zingiber argenteum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber atrorubens Gagnep.
• Zingiber aurantiacum ( Holttum ) Theilade
• Zingiber banhaoense Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber barbatum Wall.
• Zingiber bisectum D.Fang
• Zingiber bradleyanum Craib
• Zingiber brevifolium N.E.Br.
• Zingiber bulusanense Elmer
• Zingiber capitatum Roxb.
• Zingiber cernuum Dalzell
• Zingiber chlorobracteatum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber chrysanthum Roscoe
• Zingiber chrysostachys Ridl.
• Zingiber citriodorum Theilade & Mood
• Zingiber clarkei King ex Benth. & Hook.f.
• Zingiber cochinchinense Gagnep.
• Zingiber cochleariforme D.Fang
• Zingiber collinsii Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber coloratum N.E.Br.
• Zingiber coral linum Hance
• Zingiber curtisii Holttum
• Zingiber cylindricum Thwaites
• Zingiber densissimum S.Q.Tong & Y.M.Xia
• Zingiber eberhardtii Gagnep.
• Zingiber eborinum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber elatior ( Ridl. ) Theilade
• Zingiber elatum Roxb.
• Zingiber ellipticum ( SQTong & YMXia ) QGWu & TLWu
• Zingiber flagelliforme Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber flammeum Theilade & Mood
• Zingiber flavomaculosum S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber flavovirens Theilade
• Zingiber fragile S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber fraseri Theilade
• Zingiber georgeae Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber gracile Jack
• Zingiber gramineum Noronha ex flower
• Zingiber griffithii Baker
• Zingiber guangxiense D.Fang
• Zingiber gulinense Y.M.Xia
• Zingiber idae Triboun & K.Larsen
• Zingiber incomptum B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm.
• Zingiber inflexum flower
• Zingiber integrilabrum Hance
• Zingiber integrum S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber intermedium Baker
• Zingiber Junceum Gagnep.
• Zingiber kawagoii Hayata
• Zingiber kelabitianum Theilade & H.Chr.
• Zingiber kerrii Craib
• Zingiber kunstleri King ex Ridl.
• Zingiber lambii Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber laoticum Gagnep.
• Zingiber larsenii Theilade
• Zingiber latifolium Theilade & Mood
• Zingiber leptorrhizum D.Fang
• Zingiber leptostachyum Valeton
• Zingiber ligulatum Roxb.
• Zingiber lingyunense D.Fang
• Zingiber loerzingii Valeton
• Zingiber longibracteatum Theilade
• Zingiber longiglande D.Fang & D.H.Qin
• Zingiber longiligulatum S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber longipedunculatum Ridl.
• Zingiber longyanjiang Z.Y.Zhu
• Zingiber macradenium K.Schum.
• Zingiber macrocephalum (inch ) K.Schum.
• Zingiber macroglossum Valeton
• Zingiber macrorrhynchus K.Schum.
• Zingiber malaysianum C.K.Lim
• Zingiber marginatum Roxb.
• Zingiber martinii R.M.Sm.
• Zingiber matutumense Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber mekongense Gagnep.
• Zingiber menghaiense S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber Mioga ( Thunb. ) Roscoe
• Zingiber molle Ridl.
• Zingiber monglaense S.J.Chen & Z.Y.Chen
• Zingiber monophyllum Gagnep.
• Zingiber montanum ( J.König ) Link ex A.Dietr.
• Zingiber multibracteatum Holttum
• Zingiber neesanum ( J.Graham ) Ramamoorthy
• Zingiber neglectum Valeton
• Zingiber negro sense Elmer
• Zingiber neotruncatum T.L.Wu, K.Larsen & Turland
• Zingiber newmanii Theilade & Mood
• Zingiber nigrimaculatum S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber nimmonii ( J.Graham ) Dalzell
• Zingiber niveum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber nudicarpum D.Fang
• Zingiber odoriferum flower
• Zingiber officinale Roscoe
• Zingiber oligophyllum K.Schum.
• Zingiber olivaceum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber orbiculatum S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber ottensii Valeton
• Zingiber pachysiphon B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm.
• Zingiber panduratum Roxb.
• Zingiber papuanum Valeton
• Zingiber pardocheilum Wall. ex Baker
• Zingiber parishii Hook.f.
• Zingiber paucipunctatum D.Fang
• Zingiber pellitum Gagnep.
• Zingiber pendulum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber peninsular Theilade
• Zingiber petiolatum ( Holttum ) Theilade
• Zingiber phillippsiae Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber pleiostachyum K.Schum.
• Zingiber porphyrosphaerum K.Schum.
• Zingiber pseudopungens R.M.Sm.
• Zingiber puberulum Ridl.
• Zingiber pubisquama Ridl.
• Zingiber raja C.K.Lim & Kharuk.
• Zingiber recurvatum S.Q.Tong & Y.M.Xia
• Zingiber roseum ( Roxb. ) Roscoe
• Zingiber rubens Roxb.
• Zingiber rufopilosum Gagnep.
• Zingiber simaoense Y.Y.Qian
• Zingiber smilesianum Craib
• Zingiber spectabile handle.
• Zingiber squarrosum Roxb.
• Zingiber stenostachys K.Schum.
• Zingiber stipitatum S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber striolatum Diels
• Zingiber sulphureum Burkill ex Theilade
• Zingiber thorelii Gagnep.
• Zingiber tongtak K.Schum.
• Zingiber tuanjuum Z.Y.Zhu
• Zingiber vanlithianum Coord
• Zingiber velutinum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber vinosum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber viridiflavum Mood & Theilade
• Zingiber wandingense S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber wightianum Thwaites
• Zingiber wrayi Prain ex Ridl.
• Zingiber yingjiangense S.Q.Tong
• Zingiber yunnanense S.Q.Tong & X.Z.Liu
• Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Sm Roscoe ex

Use

• Mioga (Zingiber Mioga ( Thunb. ) Roscoe ), a species that is cultivated mainly in Japan, and from which the inflorescences are used as a spice.
• Ginger ( Zingiber officinale Roscoe ), a globally cultured, important spice plant, from the rhizome is used.
• Blockzitwer (Zingiber montanum (J. King ) Link ex A. Dietr; Syn. Z. purpureum Roscoe ); perhaps originated in India, is cultivated in tropical Asia
• Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Sm ex Roscoe, a displaced in many areas of tropical ruderal plant, which is also cultivated as a medicinal plant.

Swell

• Alan T. Whittemore: Zingiber. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 22: Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae ( in part), and Zingiberidae, Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford et al 2000, ISBN 0-19-513729-9, online..
• Delin Wu, Kai Larsen: Zingiber. In: Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 24: Flagellariaceae through Marantaceae, Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2000, ISBN 0-915279-83-5, p 223, online.