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Zingiber officinale Roscoe.
Engl.: garden ginger, ginger, adrak, Canton ginger, common ginger, culinary ginger.
Deu.: Ingwer.
Fran.: gingembre.
Sven.: ingefära.
Suom.: inkivääri.
Ital.: zenzero.
Bot. syn.: Amomum angustifolium Salisb., Amomum zingiber L., Zingiber zingiber (L.) Karst.

Pre-Linnaean:
Amomum scapo nudo, spica ovata (Hort. cliff. 3., Hort. ups. 1., Flor. zeyl. 3., Mat. med. 1., Roy. lugdb. 12.) (Linnaeus Species Plantarum 1753),
Amomum Zingiber, Jacquin Hort. Vindob. vol. I. t. 75. (Woodville),
Zingiber (Bauh. pin. 35.) (Linnaeus Species Plantarum 1753),
Zingiber (Browne's Jam. 119, Sloane's Jam. I. p. 163. Inschi. Rheed. Mal.) (Woodville),
Zingiber angustiori folio, &c. (Pluk. Alm.) (Woodville),
Zingiber majus (Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 156.) (Woodville)