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Alpinia is a genus in the subfamily Alpinioideae from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), which are among the flowering plants. With about 230 species, the genus is the most diverse in the ginger family.
Some species are used as a spice and medicinal plants by man. Many species and varieties are popular ornamental plants in tropical gardens and parks.
Distribution
They have a distribution focus in the Indonesian archipelago and tropical Australia. Species occur in large parts of the tropical Asian continent.
Description
Alpinia species are perennial herbaceous plants. They are creeping, thick rhizomes as Überdauerungsorgane. Are formed mostly well-developed “pseudo stems from many generally, rarely only one to four leaves. The leaf blades are oblong or lanceolate.
The terminal, spiciform, year-old, vituperate inflorescences contain lying stretched close to many flowers. The burgeoning in flower heads are usually covered in one to three bracts. Each flower is usually over a tubular to spread cover page. The flowers are hermaphrodite with triadic double perianth. The three sepals are together Röhrig. Three carpels are fused into a dreikammerigen ovary. The labellum is often strikingly different, with lobed or smooth edges and is usually longer than the Kronlappen. Sometimes missing stamens.
There are usually spherical, dry or fleshy capsule fruit with many seeds formed. The seeds have an aril often edgy.
System
The genus Alpinia contains about 230 species. This genus is not monophyletic, and will thus be broken down in the near future in several species. The genus Alpinia belongs to the tribe in the subfamily Alpinieae Alpinioideae within the family of Zingiberaceae.
The valid publication of the genus Alpinia made in 1810 by William Roxburgh in Asiatic Researches, 11, p. 350-352 with the type species Alpinia galanga (L.) Willd .. Synonyms for Alpinia Roxb. are: Adelmeria Ridl., Albina Giseke, Buekia Giseke, Catimbium Juss., Cenolophon flower Elmeria Ridl., Eriolopha Ridl., Guillainia Vieille., Hellenia Willd., Hellwigia Warb., Heritiera Retz., Kolowratia C. Presl, J Languas . Koenig ex Small, Martensia Giseke, Odontychium K. Schum., Miq Strobidia., zerumbet JCWendl .. Alpinia Roxb. Vienna ICBN Art was by 14:10 & App. conserved III compared to the earlier homonym (Vienna ICBN Art 53) Alpinia L. published in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, 1, p. 2 with the type species Alpinia racemosa L., whose valid name but Renealmia pyramidalis (Lam.) Maas is, moreover, this name is Alpinia Roxb. conserved over the name Albina Giseke, Buekia Giseke and zerumbet JCWendl ..
Currently, the type is divided into two subgenera and eleven sections:
* Subgenus Alpinia:
o Section Alpinia
o Section Didymanthus
o Section Kolowratia
o Section Fax
o Section Guillania
o Section Artiflorae
o Section Allughas
* Subgenus Dieramalpinia:
o Section Dieramalpinia
o Section Eubractea
o Section Myriocrater
o Section Pycnanthus
Some species are aromatic and medicinal plants
* Thai ginger (Alpinia galanga (L.) Sw.)
* Galingale root, galanga called Real, (Alpinia officinarum Hance)
Species used as ornamentals
* Alpinia abundiflora
* Alpinia acrostachya
* Australian Blue Alpinia (Alpinia coerulea (R.Br.) Benth.)
* Alpinia conchigera
* Alpinia emaculata
* Fragrance Alpinia (Alpinia henryi), the only fragrant Alpinia
* Javaanische Alpinia (Alpinia javanica)
* Schwarzfruchtige Alpinia (Alpinia melanocarpa)
* Small-shell Alpinia (Alpinia mutica)
* Shell Alpinia (Alpinia nutans (L.) Roscoe ex Sm)
* Alpinia petiolata
* Rosa Tang Alpinia, Red Alpinia (Alpinia purpurata (Vieill.) K. Schum.), Many varieties with purple or pink.
* Alpinia pyramidata
* Alpinia rafflesiana Wall. ex Baker
* Alpinia striata
* Shell ginger (Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) BLBurtt & RMSm., Syn Alpinia speciosa (JCWendl.) K. Schum., Languas speciosa (JCWendl.) Small, zerumbet speciosum JCWendl.)
* Alpinia zingiberina
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinia
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