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Elettaria
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Elettaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. They are native to India and Sri Lanka, but cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. One member of the genus, E. cardamomum, known as green cardamom or true cardamom, is a commercially important spice used as a flavouring agent in many countries.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderZingiberales
- FamilyZingiberaceae
Common Name: cardamom
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 58
- With media
- 52
- Family
- Zingiberaceae
- Collections
- NY, MICH, MO, A, BRIT, GH
- Recorded in
- Brazil, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia/Sabah, Malaysia/Sarawak
Research
285 papers- The effect of Elettaria cardamomum (cardamom) on the metabolic syndrome: Narrative review.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2021
- Ayurvedic Herbal Medicines: A Literature Review of Their Applications in Female Reproductive Health.Cureus · 2024
- Cardamom.2006
- Elettaria cardamomum essential oil; immunomodulatory, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory effects for controlling acute Toxoplasma gondii infection.Tropical biomedicine · 2023
- Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton Essential Oil: An Interesting Source of Bioactive Specialized Metabolites as Inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase and Butyrylcholinesterase.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Species
- Formerly placed here
- References
Elettaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. They are native to India and Sri Lanka, but cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. One member of the genus, E. cardamomum, known as green cardamom or true cardamom, is a commercially important spice used as a flavouring agent in many countries.
In 2018, several species were removed from Elettaria and placed in a new genus called Sulettaria. These species are recognized as of October 2018: A phylogenetic analysis published in 2024 found that Elettaria was a well-defined clade of seven species native to India and Sri Lanka, which is sister to the African genus Aframomum and the African and Neotropical genus Renealmia, and distinct from the Sri Lankan genera Cyphostigma and Srilankanthus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elettaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.