Pandemi Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) saat ini menjadi masalah terbesar yang dihadapi lebih dari 200 negara di dunia, termasuk Indonesia. Pemanfaatan tanaman herbal perlu mendapat perhatian pemerintah atau masyarakat, Sulawesi Selatan merupakan salah satu daerah dengan jumlah kasus terkonfirmasi positif COVID-19 cukup tinggi. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pemanfaatan tumbuhan famili ...

Abstract. Saensouk P, Boonma T, S. 2022. Curcuma nakhonphanomensis (Zingiberaceae), a new species from the lower Mekong River basin, northeastern Thailand. Biodiversitas 23: 6040-6048. Boonma, & P. sp. nov. (Zingiberaceae: Zingibereae) was distributed in Nakhon Phanom Province, The morphological characteristic of this makes it fall into subgenus Ecomata, due to presence epigynous glands, la...

Innovative floral organs are widely distributed taxonomically in angiosperms, and some of them are conspicuous and curious in morphology. Floral organs have long been supposed to play a crucial role in fertilization by pollinators. However, why innovative organs occur, how they are adapted for pollinators and what sexual roles they play are still puzzling. Here we focused on a wild ginger (Zing...

Eleven essential oils, namely, Cananga odorata (Annonaceae), Cupressus sempervirens (Cupressaceae), Curcuma longa (Zingiberaceae), Cymbopogon citratus (Poaceae), Eucalyptus globulus (Myrtaceae), Pinus radiata (Pinaceae), Piper crassinervium (Piperaceae), Psidium guayava (Myrtaceae), Rosmarinus officinalis (Lamiaceae), Thymus x citriodorus (Lamiaceae) and Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae), wer...

Identification of Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) by human experience is often inaccurate because individual ability and external factors may influence the outcome. However, it might be promising to employ an electronic nose (E-nose) to identify them. This paper presents a rapid and reliable method for identification of ten different species of CHMs from Zingiberaceae family based on their resp...

Curcuma leonidii, a new species of Curcuma subg. Hitcheniopsis (Zingiberaceae) from southern Vietnam is described and illustrated here. Curcuma leonidii with flowers similar to some Stahlianthus-like species but inflorescences consisting of up to 8 green bracts and their arrangements conforming to usual ‘classical’ Curcuma-like species provides the much-awaited morphological link between the tw...