Plant Details

Accepted name:: Alpinia conchigera Griff. [Zingiberaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aidul	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
cengkenam	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chengkenam	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
galangal	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jerunang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jiāng kē	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
khaa ling	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
langkuas kechil	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lengkuas genting	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lengkuas kechil	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lengkuas kecil	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lengkuas padang	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lengkuas padi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lengkuas ranting	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lesser alpinia	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rumput kelemoyang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xiǎo liáng jiāng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yuè táo shǔ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
云南红豆蔻	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
云南红豆蔻果	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
姜科	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
小良姜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
月桃属	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves, rhizome		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rhizomes		Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Languas conchigera (Griff.) Burkill Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1930: 37 (1930).
Alpinia humilis Teijsm. & Binn. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 24: 327 (1862), nom. illeg.
Alpinia sumatrana (Miq.) K.Schum. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 27: 291 (1899).
Languas sumatrana (Miq.) Merr. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 15: 35 (1929).
Strobidia conchigera (Griff.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 698 (1891).
Strobidia oligosperma Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 698 (1891).
Strobidia sumatrana Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind., Eerste Bijv.: 614 (1861).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alpinia conchigera	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Alpinia conchigera Griff	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Alpinia conchigera Griff.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Alpinia conchigera Griffith	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 3. (2013) Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Alpinia conchigera, Griff	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Apinia conchigera	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Languas conchigera	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Languas conchigera Burk.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Languas conchigera Burkill	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Languas conchigera Burkill.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Languas conschigera	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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