Srilankanthus

Srilankanthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Zingiberaceae
Genus:	Srilankanthus Maras. & A.D.Poulsen
Species:	S. nemoralis
Binomial name
Srilankanthus nemoralis (Thwaites) Maras. & A.D.Poulsen
Synonyms [1]
Amomum nemorale(Thwaites) Trimen Cardamomum nemorale(Thwaites) Kuntze Elettaria nemoralisThwaites (1861) (species basionym) Geanthus nemoralis(Thwaites) Loes.

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. ^[1]

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. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. "Srilankanthus nemoralis (Thwaites) Maras. & A.D.Poulsen". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 25 October 2025.
2. 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