Cardamomum (U. S. P.)—Cardamom.
Botanical name:
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Elettaria cardamomum var. major Thwaites.
Engl.: Ceylon wild cardamoms, wild cardamom, Ceylon cardamom, grains of paradise, large cardamom, long cardamom, long white cardamom, long wild natives, Sri Lanka cardamom.
Bot. syn.: Elettaria major Sm.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: John Hill 1812.
Classic texts: Pereira 1854.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
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