Plant Details

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

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alpina katsumadai seed	Other	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
alpiniae katsumadai semen	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
alpiniae katsumadaii semen	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
cao dou kou	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
caodoukou	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
fù	Other	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
katsumada galangal	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
katsumada galangal seed	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
katsumada’s galangal seed	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
semen alpiniae katsumadai	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
āng guɔi	Other	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
小草寇	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
草豆蔻	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed	dried almost ripe seed	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
leaves, stem		Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
seed	ripe seed	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Fruit		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
seed	dried and almost ripe seed	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
seed		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
seed	dried almost ripe seed	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
seed		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
seed		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
seed		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
seed		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

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

Alpinia henryi K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 46: 335 (1904).
Alpinia katsumadae Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 5: 224 (1915).
Languas henryi (K.Schum.) Merr. Lingnan Sci. J. 5: 51 (1928).
Languas katsumadae (Hayata) Merr. Lingnaam Agric. Rev. 1(1): 64 (1923).
Alpinia henryi var. densihispida H.Dong & G.J.Xu Acta Phytotax. Sin. 35: 568 (1997).
Alpinia kainantensis Masam. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 33: 28 (1943).
Languas hainanensis (K.Schum.) Merr. Lingnan Sci. J. 5: 51 (1928).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alpinia hainanensis K. Schum.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022)
Alpinia hainanensis K.Schum.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Alpinia henryi K Schum	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Alpinia henryi K.Schum.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Alpinia katsumadae Hayata	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Alpinia katsumadai	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Alpinia katsumadai Hay.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Alpinia katsumadai Hayat	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Alpinia katsumadai Hayata	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Languas henryi (K.Schum.) Merr.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Languas katsumadai (Hayata) Merr.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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