Renealmia alpinia

Renealmia alpinia
Botanical illustration of R. alpinia from Flora de Filipinas by Francisco Manuel Blanco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Genus: Renealmia
Species:
R. alpinia
Binomial name
Renealmia alpinia
(Rottb.) Maas (1975)[1]
Synonyms
  • Alpinia exaltata (L. f.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Amomum alpinia Rottb.
  • Renealmia exaltata L. f.

Renealmia alpinia is a flowering plant species native to the Americas, where it grows from southern Mexico through much of South America, though not in the Southern Cone.[2] It can also be found on several Caribbean islands.

In Quechua it is called misk'i p'anqa (misk'i sweet; honey, p'anqa bract, "sweet bract" or "honey bract").[3][4] The name alludes to R. alpinia's value as a culinary herb, especially for flavoring fish. Among Spanish-speakers this species is known as jenjibre-de-jardin ("garden ginger"). Both jenjibre-de-jardin and ginger (Zingiber officinale) are in the family Zingiberaceae.

Renealmia alpinia is commonly known as mardi gras in Trinidad, where hunters administer it either orally or topically to their hunting dogs to treat a variety of conditions, from sprains to snakebite.[5]

In Suriname it's known as masoesa.[6]

  1. ^ "Renealmia alpinia". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Renealmia alpinia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
  4. ^ "Renealmia alpinia (Zingiberaceae)". National Tropical Botanical Garden. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  5. ^ Lans, Cheryl; Harper, Tisha; Georges, Karla; Bridgewater, Elmo (2001). "Medicinal and ethnoveterinary remedies of hunters in Trinidad". BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 1 (10): 10. doi:10.1186/1472-6882-1-10. PMC 60997. PMID 11737880.
  6. ^ "Zoekresultaten".