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Zingiber mioga

(Japanese Ginger)

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Japanese Ginger, Mioga Ginger

Common Names in French:

Gingembre Du Japon, Gingembre Mioga

Common Names in German:

Japaningwer

Common Names in Japanese:

Mioga, Myoga

Common Names in Russian:

Imbir´ Mioga

Description

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Family Zingiberaceae

Herbs perennial , terrestrial , rarely epiphytic, aromatic , with fleshy , tuberous or non-tuberous rhizomes, often with tuber-bearing roots . Stems usually short, replaced by pseudostems formed by leaf sheaths . Leaves distichous, simple , those toward base of plant usually bladeless and reduced to sheaths; leaf sheath open; ligule usually present; petiole present or not, located between leaf blade and sheath, cushionlike in Zingiber; leaf blade suborbicular or lanceolate to narrowly strap-shaped , rolled longitudinally in bud, glabrous or hairy , midvein prominent , lateral veins usually numerous , pinnate, parallel, margin entire. Inflorescence terminal on pseudostems or on separate, short, sheath-covered shoots arising from rhizomes, cylindric or fusiform , sometimes globose , lax to dense, few to many flowered, sometimes with bracteolate cincinni in bract axils and then a thyrse , sometimes a raceme or spike; bracts and bracteoles present, often conspicuous , colored . Flowers bisexual , epigynous , zygomorphic. Calyx usually tubular , thin, split on 1 side, sometimes spathelike, apex 3-toothed or -lobed. Corolla proximally tubular, distally 3-lobed; lobes varying in size and shape . Stamens or staminodes 6, in 2 whorls. Lateral 2 staminodes of outer whorl petaloid, or forming small teeth at base of labellum, or adnate to labellum, or absent. Median staminode of outer whorl always reduced. Labellum formed from lateral 2 staminodes of inner whorl. Fertile stamen median, of inner whorl; filament long or short; anther locules 2, introrse , dehiscing by slits or occasionally pores ; connective often extended basally into spurs and/or apically into a crest . Ovary inferior, 3-loculed initially, 1- or 3-loculed when mature ; ovules ± numerous per locule; placentation parietal , basal, or axile . Developed style 1, very thin, placed in a furrow in filament and between anther locules; stigma appearing above anther, funnelform , papillose , ± wet, margin often ciliate . Stylodes 2, reduced to nectaries at apex of ovary. Fruit a capsule, fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, sometimes berrylike. Seeds few to many, arillate ; aril often lobed or lacerate .

About 50 genera and 1300 species: pantropical with center of diversity in S and SE Asia, some species in America and subtropical and warm-temperate Asia; 20 genera (one endemic) and 216 species (141 endemic, four introduced ) in China.[1]

Genus Zingiber

Pseudostems well -developed, 1--2 m. Inflorescences terminating short stem with only scale leaves [projecting from side or tip of pseudostem], dense, conelike; bracts of main axis crowded, 1--3[--5], reniform or very broadly ovate [to lance-elliptical or lanceolate]; cincinni sessile, 1-flowered, enclosed in bracts; bracteoles small, inconspicuous, hidden by bracts. Flowers: calyx cylindric , shortly 3-lobed, split down one side; corolla tube cylindric, dilated distally, lobes lanceolate; filament short or nearly absent; anther enclosed within upper petal, not spurred , terminal appendage long; lateral staminodes absent or reduced to small teeth connate with lip, lip plane, entire, notched , or 3-lobed. Fruits capsule, ellipsoid . x = 11.

Species ca. 100: introduced ; North America, Mexico, Africa, n Australia; native , s Asia.

The ginger of commerce, Zingiber officinale Roscoe, is native to southeast Asia; it is commonly cultivated throughout the tropics, and most of the commercial supply now comes from Jamaica. Ginger seldom flowers or fruits in cultivation although plants are known to spread vegetatively in the vicinity of abandoned gardens in some tropical areas.[2]

Physical Description

Species Zingiber mioga

Rhizomes yellowish. Ligule 2-lobed, 3--12 mm, membranous; petiole absent to 1.7 cm; leaf blade lanceolate-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 20--37 × 4--6 cm, glabrous or abaxially pilose , apex caudate . Inflorescences arising from rhizomes, ellipsoid , 5--7 cm; peduncle absent to 17 cm, scalelike sheaths oblong ; bracts reddish green with purple veins, elliptic . Calyx 2.5--3 cm. Corolla tube longer than calyx; lobes yellowish, lanceolate, 2.7--3 cm × ca. 7 mm. Labellum ovate , ca. 3 cm; central lobe yellow with white margin , ca. 2.5 × 1.8 cm; lateral lobes ca. 1.3 cm × 4 mm. Anther ca. 1 cm; connective appendage ca. 1 cm. Capsule obovoid , loculicidally dehiscent ; pericarp red inside. Seeds black; aril white. Fl. Aug--Oct. 2 n = 22. [source]

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Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Amomum mioga Thunberg in Murray, Syst. Veg. , Ed. 14, 51. 1784
  2. Z. oligophyllum K. Schumann.
  3. Zingiber echuanense Y. K. Yang

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8:348. 1807

Name verified on 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Zingiber

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 205 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

Z. acuminatum · Z. albiflorum · Z. alliaceum · Z. amaricans · Z. amoricans · Z. anthorrhiza · Z. aquosum · Z. argenteum · Z. aromaticum (Fragrant Ginger) · Z. atrorubens · Z. aurantiacum · Z. barbatum · Z. bisectum · Z. blancoi · Z. borneense · Z. bradleyanum · Z. brevifolium · Z. bulusanense · Z. capitatum · Z. cassumunar · Z. cernuum · Z. chlorobracteatum · Z. cholmondeleyi · Z. chrysanthum · Z. chrysostachys · Z. citrinum · Z. citriodorum · Z. clarkei · Z. clarkii · Z. cliffordiae · Z. cochinchinense · Z. cochleariforme · Z. collinsii · Z. coloratum · Z. confine · Z. corallinum · Z. cornubracteatum · Z. curtisii · Z. cylindricum · Z. darceyi · Z. densissimum · Z. dubium · Z. eberhardtii · Z. eborinum · Z. echuanense · Z. elatum · Z. ellipticum · Z. emeiense · Z. ensal · Z. flagelliforme · Z. flammeum · Z. flavomaculosum · Z. flavovirens · Z. fragile · Z. fraseri · Z. galanga · Z. georgeae · Z. gigantifolium · Z. globosum · Z. gracile · Z. gracile Jack var. aurantiaca · Z. gramineum · Z. griffithii (Red Gingerwort) · Z. guangxiense · Z. gulinense · Z. hupehense · Z. idae · Z. incomptum · Z. inflexum · Z. integrilabrum · Z. integrum · Z. intermedium · Z. jucundum · Z. junceum · Z. kawagoii · Z. kelabitianum · Z. kerrii · Z. koshunense · Z. koshunensis · Z. kunstleri · Z. lambii · Z. laoticum · Z. larsenii · Z. latifolium · Z. leptorrhizum · Z. leptostachyum · Z. ligulatum · Z. lingyunense · Z. littorale · Z. loerzingii · Z. longibracteatum · Z. longiglande · Z. longiligulatum · Z. longipedunculatum · Z. luridum · Z. macradenium · Z. macrodenium · Z. macrorrhynchus · Z. macrostachyum · Z. malaysianum

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Data Sources

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Footnotes

  1. Delin Wu & Kai Larsen "Zingiberaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 322. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. "Zingiber". in Flora of North America Vol. 22. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009