Intensive botanical explorations for the revision of Indian Amomum have resulted in
the collection of an interesting species with long membranous ligule from the Silent
Valley National Park on the Western Ghats of Kerala. Th e family Zingiberaceae (ginger family) consists of 53 genera and over 1200 species (Kress et al. 2002). Amomum Roxb. is the second largest genus after Alpinia Roxb. within Zingiberaceae with about 150-180 species, widely distributed in Southeast Asia (Xia et al. 2004). In India the genus is represented by 22 species, mostly restricted to North-East India and South India PhytoKeys 8: 99–104 (2012) doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.8.2152
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100 V. P. Th omas et al. / PhytoKeys 8: 99–104 (2012) (Th omas et al. 2010). Sabu (2006) reported 6 species of Amomum from South India and Th omas et al. (2009) raised the number species to 7 by reporting new distribution record of A. fulviceps
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