Amomum villosum
| Amomum villosum | |
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| Amomum villosum at the Hong Kong Botanical Garden | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Amomum |
| Species: | A. villosum, |
| Binomial name | |
| Amomum villosum Lour. | |
Amomum villosum (砂仁) is a plant in the ginger family that is grown throughout Southeast Asia and in South China.[2] Similar to cardamom, the plant is cultivated for their fruits, which dry into pods when mature and contain strongly aromatic seeds.[3] The pods are used in Chinese cuisines to flavour soups and in Chinese herbology to treat stomach ache and dysentery.[3]
Due to the demand for the seeds and the ripe fruits of the plant and to curb slash-and-burn activities in their forests by local populations, cultivation of the A. villosum and co-plantings with rubber trees has been encouraged by the governments of Yunnan and Guangdong, China.[4] However, the extensive cultivation of A. villosum in the forest has resulted in the reduction of species diversity in the rainforest of Southwest China.[5]
References
- ↑ IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 November 2012.
- ↑ "Amomum villosum", Encyclopedia of Life
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 G. Li, A.J. Chen, X.Y. Chen, X.L. Li1 and W.W. Gao (2010), "First report of Amomum villosum (cardamom) leaf lesion caused by Pyricularia costina in China", New Disease Reports 22 (2.)
- ↑ Zhou, Shouqing (1993), "Cultivation of Amomum villosum in tropical forests", Forest Ecology and Management 60 (1–2): 157–162, doi:10.1016/0378-1127(93)90029-M
- ↑ Liu, Hongmao; Gao, Lei; Zheng, Zheng; Feng, Zhili (2006), "The impact of Amomum villosum cultivation on seasonal rainforest in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China", Biodiversity and Conservation 15 (9): 2971–2985, doi:10.1007/s10531-005-3876-4