Amomum melegueta Roscoe

, Monandr. Pl. Scitam. pts. 11-12: t. 98 (1827), nom. illeg.
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:795591-1
Publication
Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae, Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Boanic Garden at Liverpool. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus, with Descriptions and Observations by William Roscoe. Liverpool
Collation
pts. 11-12: t. 98
Date of Publication
ante 5 Apr 1827
Family as entered in IPNI
Zingiberaceae

Type Information

Locality
“Melegueta Coast”
Distribution Of Types
Liberia (West Tropical Africa, Africa)

Original Data

Remarks
Afr. trop

Nomenclatural Notes

Status: nom. illeg. later homonym non Amomum meleguetta Giseke (1792)

Links

Basionym of
Aframomum melegueta (Roscoe) K.Schum., Pflanzenr. (Engler) IV. 46(Heft 20): 204 (1904).