ຂີງລາຍລາວ / Lao Ginger

Language

Use

Food

Scientific Name / Family

Zingiber laoticum Gagnep. / Zingiberaceae

Synonyms

Other Names

Chinese: 梭穗姜 suo sui jiang

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Botanical Description

Rhizomatous herb, pseudostems up to 1.4 m tall. Leaves 10-25; leaf sheath 2-9 cm long; ligule entire, 7-12 mm, membranous; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, 10-25 × 3-6 cm, glabrescent, base attenuate, apex caudate. Inflorescences arising from rhizomes, fusiform, 7-15 × 2-5 cm; peduncle 20-35 cm; bracts green-purple to red when fruiting, ovate, 3-4 × 1.5-2.5 cm, margin membranous, apex obtuse-acuminate, green to red near the apex. Calyx ca 9 cm, pubescent. Corolla tube 3-3.5 cm; lobes with a brown stripe, lanceolate, ca 2 cm. Labellum orbiculate, yellowish with a brown stripe, ca 3 cm. Lateral staminode ovate, apex rounded. Anther sessile, ca 1 cm; connective appendage incurved, ca. 10 mm. Ovary hirsute. seed elliptic, black-brown.

Description of Use

Young shoots and young inflorescences are used for food.

References / Citations

Gagnepain, F. (1908). Zingibéracées . In: Lecomte, H. (ed.) Flore Générale de l'Indo-Chine, vol. 6, pp. 57–70. Paris: Masson et Cie Éditeurs.

Leong-Škorničková, J. & Newman, M. (2015). Gingers of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam. Singapore: Singapore Botanic Garden National Parks Board, Singapore.

Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. & Armstrong, K. (2007). A checklist of the vascular plants of Lao PDR: 1-394. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

Souvannakhoummane, K. 2019. Zingiber laoticum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T117252687A124279363. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T117252687A124279363.en. Downloaded on 09 July 2020.

Souvannakhoummane, K., & Leong-Škorničková, J. (2018). EIGHT NEW RECORDS OF ZINGIBER MILL. (ZINGIBERACEAE) FOR THE FLORA OF LAO P.D.R. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 75(1), 3-18. doi:10.1017/S0960428617000312

Triboun, P., Larsen, K. & Chantaranothai, P. (2014). A key to the genus Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in Thailand with descriptions of 10 new taxa. Thai J. Bot. 6 (1): 53–77.

Wu, T. L. & Larsen, K. (2000). Zingiberaceae . In: Wu, Z. Y. & Raven, P. H. (eds) Flora of China, vol. 24, pp. 322–377. Beijing: Science Press, and St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press.

Contributors

ແກ້ວອຸດອນ ສຸວັນນະກູມມານ/ Keooudone Souvannakhoummane