Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :
Boesenbergia
fallax Loes
CHINESE : Xin ye ao chun jiang.
ENGLISH : Heart-leaved boesenbergia.
Boesenbergia pandurata (Roxb.) Schltr.
-> Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf.
Boesenbergia rotunda
(L.) Mansf.
SYNONYM(S) : Curcuma rotunda L., Kaempferia rotunda Don., Boesenbergia pandurata (Roxb.) Schltr. , Gastrochilus panduratus (Roxb.) Ridl., Kaempferia pandurata Roxb.
CHINESE : Ao chun jiang, Yao shi, Suo shi (Singapore).
DUTCH : Temoe koentji.
ENGLISH : Chinese keys, Finger root, Resurrection lily, Tropical crocus.
GERMAN : Chinesischer Ingwer, Fingerwurz, Gewürzlilie.
HUNGARIAN : Kínai gyömbér.
KHMER : Khchiey.
LAOTIAN : Houo ka sai, Kasay, Neng Kieng.
MALAY : Temu kunchi, Kunci (Indonesia).
RUSSIAN : Bëzenbergiia kruglaia.
THAI : Krachai (Kra chaai, Gra chai), Khao chae.
VIETNAMESE : Bong nga truat, Cu ngai, Ngai num kho.
Photographs & description (English) at Gernot Katzer's Spice site.
Photograph of foliage at Dave Skinner's Le Jardin Ombragé.
Photograph of flower at Dave Skinner's Le Jardin Ombragé.
EURODICAUTOM, On-line Technical Dictionary in 12 languages provided by the European Commission < http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl?page=expert > (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Latin with authority names)
Katzer Gernot, 2001, Spice site. Boesenbergia pandurata. < http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Boes_pan.html >
Mabberley D.J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Skinner D. 2001, All about Gingers, Other Ginger Genera, Species List, including Aframomum Notes - Boesenbergia rotunda, Le Jardin Ombragé. < http://freepages.garden.rootsweb.com/~skinnerd/Gingers/OtherGingers_A-D/Notes.htm#3786 >.
USDA, ARS, 2000, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl?boesenbergia (09 November 2001).
Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.
Xie Zongwa & Yu Youqin (Editors), 1996, Materia Medica, Chinese Terminology, Vol. 1, Renminweisheng Publishing House Beijing, China. (Latin with authority names and Chinese-simplified, text in Chinese).
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