Srilankanthus

Srilankanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It includes a single species, Srilankanthus nemoralis, a rhizomatous geophyte native to Kalutara District of Sri Lanka.

Srilankanthus
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Clade:Commelinids
Order:Zingiberales
Family:Zingiberaceae
Genus:SrilankanthusMaras. & A.D.Poulsen
Species:S. nemoralis
Srilankanthus nemoralis(Thwaites) Maras. & A.D.Poulsen
Amomum nemorale (Thwaites) Trimen
Cardamomum nemorale (Thwaites) Kuntze
Elettaria nemoralis Thwaites (1861) (species basionym)
Geanthus nemoralis (Thwaites) Loes.

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Srilankanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It includes a single species, Srilankanthus nemoralis, a rhizomatous geophyte native to Kalutara District of Sri Lanka.

The species was first described as Elettaria nemoralis by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites in 1861, and later known by several synonyms. In 2024 Lakmini Darshika Kumarage Marasinghe and Axel Dalberg Poulsen placed the species in the new monotypic genus Srilankanthus as Srilankanthus nemoralis.

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