WFO logo

Snapshots of the taxonomy

WFO Logo

As classified in WFO snapshot

March 2019

Warning: older classification

species

Zingiber officinale Roscoe

This species name was first published in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8:348. (1807)  

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0000617397.

Synonyms of Zingiber officinale Roscoe

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Amomum angustifolium Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 4 1796 wfo-0000338897
Amomum zingiber L. Sp. Pl. 1 1753 wfo-0000339326
Amomum zinziba Hill Veg. Syst. ed. 16: 50 1770 wfo-0000339327
Zingiber aromaticum Noronha Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 28 1790 wfo-0000615885
Zingiber cholmondeleyi (F.M.Bailey) K.Schum. Pflanzenr. IV, 46: 172 1904 wfo-0000616068
Zingiber missionis Wall. Fl. Brit. India 6: 246 1892 wfo-0000617161
Zingiber officinale var. cholmondeleyi F.M.Bailey Queensland Agric. J. 6: 498 1900 wfo-0000617407
Zingiber officinale f. macrorhizonum (Makino) M.Hiroe Pl. Basho's & Buson's Hokku Lit. 8: 258 1971 wfo-0000617418
Zingiber officinale var. macrorhizonum Makino J. Jap. Bot. 8: 45 1933 wfo-0000617429
Zingiber officinale f. rubens (Makino) M.Hiroe Pl. Basho's & Buson's Hokku Lit. 8: 258 1971 wfo-0000617439
Zingiber officinale var. rubens Makino J. Jap. Bot. 8: 45 1933 wfo-0000617450
Zingiber officinale var. rubrum Theilade Gard. Bull. Singapore 48: 218 1996 publ. 1998 wfo-0000617460
Zingiber officinale var. sichuanense (Z.Y.Zhu, S.L.Zhang & S.X.Chen) Z.Y.Zhu, S.L.Zhang & S.X.Chen in Fl. Sichuanica 10: 624 1992 wfo-0000617471
Zingiber sichuanense Z.Y.Zhu, S.L.Zhang & S.X.Chen Bull. Sichuan School Chin. Met. Med. 1987(1): 39 1987 wfo-0000617841
Zingiber zingiber (L.) H.Karst. Deut. Fl. 471 1880 wfo-0000618281
Curcuma longifolia Wall. wfo-0001146278
Zingiber majus Rumph. wfo-0001146283