Boesenbergia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Zingiberales

Familia: Zingiberaceae
Subfamilia: Zingiberoideae
Tribus: Zingibereae
Genus: Boesenbergia
Overview of species

B. albolutea – B. albomaculata – B. angustifolia – B. apiculata – B. armeniaca – B. baimaii – B. basispicata – B. belalongensis – B. bruneiana – B. burttiana – B. clivalis – B. cordata – B. curtisii – B. fallax – B. flabellata – B. flava – B. flavoalba – B. flavorubra – B. gelatinosa – B. grandifolia – B. grandis – B. hirta – B. hosensis – B. hutchinsonii – B. imbakensis – B. ischnosiphon – B. islamii – B. jangarunii – B. kenali – B. kerbyi – B. laevivaginata – B. lambirensis – B. loerzingii – B. longiflora – B. longipes – B. longipetiolata – B. lysichitoides – B. macropoda – B. minor – B. ochroleuca – B. oligosperma – B. orbiculata – B. ornata – B. parva – B. parvula – B. petiolata – B. plicata – B. prainiana – B. pulchella – B. pulcherrima – B. regalis – B. roseopunctata – B. rotunda – B. rubrolutea – B. siamensis – B. siphonantha – B. stenophylla – B. striata – B. subulata – B. tenuispicata – B. thorelii – B. tiliifolia – B. tillandsiodes – B. trangensis – B. urceoligena – B. variegata – B. vittata – B. xiphostachya
Name

Boesenbergia Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 685 (1891)

Type species: Boesenbergia pulcherrima (Wall.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 685 (1891)

Synonyms

Basionym
Gastrochilus Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 22 (1829), nom. illeg.
Heterotypic
Banglium Buch.-Ham. ex Wall., Numer. List: n.º 6579 (1832), nom. nud.
Curcumorpha A.S.Rao & D.M.Verma, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 13: 339 (1971 publ. 1974)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Asia-Temperate
China
China South-Central.
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India.
Indo-China
Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam.
Malesia
Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Sumatera.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Kuntze, C.O. (1891) Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 685. BHL

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Boesenbergia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 November 16. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Boesenbergia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 November 16. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Boesenbergia. Published online. Accessed: 16 November 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Boesenbergia in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 November 16.
Tropicos.org 2019. Boesenbergia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 November 16.

Vernacular names

English: Boesenbergia

Boesenbergia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains more than 70 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.).[1][2]
Species

Plants of the World Online currently includes:[3]

Boesenbergia alba (K.Larsen & R.M.Sm.) Mood & L.M.Prince - Thailand
Boesenbergia albolutea (Baker) Schltr. - Andaman Islands
Boesenbergia albomaculata S.Q.Tong - Yunnan
Boesenbergia albosanguinea (Ridl.) Loes.
Boesenbergia angustifolia (Hallier f.) Schltr. - Thailand, Sumatra
Boesenbergia apiculata (Valeton) Loes. in H.G.A.Engler - Kalimantan
Boesenbergia armeniaca Cowley - Brunei, Sabah
Boesenbergia atropurpurea Mas Izzaty & Meekiong
Boesenbergia aurantiaca R.M.Sm.
Boesenbergia baimaii Saensouk & K.Larsen - Thailand
Boesenbergia basispicata K.Larsen ex Sirirugsa - Thailand
Boesenbergia belalongensis A.D.Poulsen - Brunei
Boesenbergia bella Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia bruneiana Cowley - Brunei
Boesenbergia burttiana R.M.Sm. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia burttii (K.Larsen & Jenjitt.) Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia clivalis (Ridl.) Schltr. - Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia collinsii Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia cordata R.M.Sm. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia curtisii (Baker) Schltr. - Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand
Boesenbergia decus-silvae (Hallier f.) Ardiyani & Mood
Boesenbergia extensa (K.Schum.) Veldkamp & Mood
Boesenbergia flabellata S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia flava Holttum - Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia flavoalba R.M.Sm. - Borneo
Boesenbergia flavorubra R.M.Sm. - Sabah, Sarawak
Boesenbergia gelatinosa K.Larsen - Thailand
Boesenbergia grandifolia (Valeton) Merr. - Borneo
Boesenbergia grandis R.M.Sm. - Sabah, Sarawak
Boesenbergia hirta (Ridl.) Merr. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia hosensis Cowley - Sarawak
Boesenbergia hutchinsonii B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia imbakensis S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sabah
Boesenbergia isanensis Saensouk & P.Saensouk
Boesenbergia ischnosiphon S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia islamii Yusof & M.A.Rahman - Bangladesh
Boesenbergia jangarunii Cowley - Brunei
Boesenbergia kenali C.K.Lim - Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia kerbyi R.M.Sm. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia kerrii Mood, L.M.Prince & Triboun
Boesenbergia kingii Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia laevivaginata S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sabah, Sarawak
Boesenbergia lambirensis S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia laotica (Picheans. & Mokkamul) Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia latilabra (Valeton) Veldkamp & Mood
Boesenbergia latongensis Meekiong, Ipor & Ibrahim
Boesenbergia loerzingii (Valeton) K.Larsen ex M.F.Newman, Lhuillier & A.D.Poulsen - Sumatra
Boesenbergia longiflora (Wall.) Kuntze - Myanmar
Boesenbergia longipes (King & Prain ex Ridl.) Schltr. - Perak, Thailand
Boesenbergia longipetiolata (Ridl.) Merr. - Mindanao
Boesenbergia lysichitoides S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia macropoda Merr. - Jolo
Boesenbergia magna (R.M.Sm.) Veldkamp & Mood
Boesenbergia maxwellii Mood, L.M.Prince & Triboun - Myanmar, Thailand[4]
Boesenbergia meghalayensis Aishwarya & M.Sabu
Boesenbergia minor (Baker) Kuntze - Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia ochroleuca (Ridl.) Schltr. - Thailand
Boesenbergia oligosperma (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia orbiculata R.M.Sm. - Brunei, Sarawak
Boesenbergia ornata (N.E.Br.) R.M.Sm. - Kalimantan
Boesenbergia parva (Ridl.) Merr. - Sarawak
Boesenbergia parvula (Wall. ex Baker) Kuntze - Myanmar, Thailand
Boesenbergia pauciflora (R.M.Sm.) Veldkamp & Mood
Boesenbergia petiolata Sirirugsa - Thailand
Boesenbergia phengklaii Mood
Boesenbergia plicata (Ridl.) Holttum - Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia prainiana (King ex Baker) Schltr. - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia pulchella (Ridl.) Merr. - Sabah, Sarawak
Boesenbergia pulcherrima (Wall.) Kuntze - India, Thailand, Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia – type species
Boesenbergia purpureorubra Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia putiana Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia quangngaiensis N.S.Lý
Boesenbergia regalis Kharuk. & Tohdam - Thailand
Boesenbergia roseopunctata (Ridl.) I.M.Turner - Sumatra
Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf. - Yunnan, Indochina, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra, Andaman Islands; introduced into India and Sri Lanka
Boesenbergia rubrolutea (Baker) Kuntze - Assam
Boesenbergia siamensis (Gagnep.) Sirirugsa - Thailand
Boesenbergia siphonantha (King ex Baker) M.Sabu, Prasanthk. & Škornick. - Indochina
Boesenbergia stenophylla R.M.Sm. - Borneo
Boesenbergia striata (Valeton) Loes. in H.G.A.Engler - Kalimantan
Boesenbergia subulata S.Sakai & Nagam - Borneo
Boesenbergia tenuispicata K.Larsen - Thailand
Boesenbergia thailandica (K.Larsen) Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia thorelii (Gagnep.) Loes. in H.G.A.Engler - Indochina
Boesenbergia tiliifolia (Baker) Kuntze - India, Assam
Boesenbergia tillandsiodes (Baker) Kuntze - India, Assam, Peninsular Malaysia
Boesenbergia trangensis K.Larsen - Thailand
Boesenbergia uniflora (K.Schum.) Ardiyani & Mood
Boesenbergia urceoligena A.D.Poulsen - Brunei
Boesenbergia variegata R.M.Sm. - Sabah, Sarawak
Boesenbergia violacea (K.Larsen & Triboun) Mood & L.M.Prince
Boesenbergia vittata (N.E.Br.) Loes. in H.G.A.Engler - Sumatra
Boesenbergia xiphostachya (Gagnep.) Loes. in H.G.A.Engler - Vietnam

Note: Boesenbergia fallax Loes. in H.G.A.Engler is a synonym of Zingiber fallax (Loes.) L.Bai, Juan Chen & N.H.Xia

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Flora of China v 24 p 367, 凹唇姜属 ao chun jiang shu, Boesenbergia Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 685. 1891.
Plants of the World Online: Boesenbergia Kuntze (retrieved 11 September 2021)]
BGO Plant Index, Thailand - with illustration (retrieved 13/9/2017)