Elettaria
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Elettaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. They are native to India and Sri Lanka, but cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.<ref name="posh">Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families</ref> One member of the genus, E. cardamomum, known as green cardamom or true cardamom, is a commercially important spice used as a flavouring agent in many countries.
In 2018, several species were removed from Elettaria and placed in a new genus called Sulettaria. These species are recognized as of October 2018:<ref name="posh"/> A phylogenetic analysis published in 2024 found that Elettaria was a well-defined clade of seven species native to India and Sri Lanka, which is sister to the African genus Aframomum and the African and Neotropical genus Renealmia, and distinct from the Sri Lankan genera Cyphostigma and Srilankanthus.<ref name = Poulsen>Poulsen, A.D., Fér, T., Marasinghe, L.D.K., Sabu, M., Hughes, M., Valderrama, E. and Leong-Škorničková, J. (2024), The cardamom conundrum resolved: Recircumscription and placement of Elettaria in the only pantropically distributed ginger lineage. Taxon, 73: 1187-1213. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13242</ref>
Species
Seven species are accepted.<ref name = powo>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton - India
- Elettaria ensal (Gaertn.) Abeyw. - Sri Lanka
- Elettaria facifera Template:Small
- Elettaria floribunda Template:Small
- Elettaria involucrata Template:Small
- Elettaria rufescens Template:Small
- Elettaria tulipifera Template:Small
Formerly placed here
These former species from Malaysia and Indonesia were reclassified into Sulettaria in 2018:<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Elettaria brachycalyx S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
- Elettaria kapitensis S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
- Elettaria linearicrista S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak, Brunei
- Elettaria longipilosa S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
- Elettaria longituba (Ridl.) Holttum - Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
- Eulettaria multiflora (Ridl.) R.M.Sm. - Sumatra, Sarawak
- Elettaria rubida R.M.Sm. - Sabah, Sarawak
- Elettaria stoloniflora (K.Schum.) S.Sakai & Nagam. - Sarawak
- Elettaria surculosa (K.Schum.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm. - Sarawak
Elettaria nemoralis is now accepted as Srilankanthus nemoralis, the sole species in genus Srilankanthus.<ref name = Poulsen/>