Morphological characteristics of Zingiberaceae in Serang District, Banten, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract. Windarsih G, Utami DW, Yuriyah S. 2021. Morphological characteristics of Zingiberaceae in Serang District, Banten, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 5507-5529. Zingiberaceae, known as ginger family, is a family of monocotyledon belonging to the Zingiberales order. This family is widely used its rhizome for various purposes, especially as medicinal plant. The morphological characters can be used to help the identification of species in the field of plant taxonomy. The aim of study was to characterize the morphological traits, both vegetative and generative organs, of Zingiberaceae from Serang District, Banten. Plant specimens were collected from Serang District, Banten, including in Pabuaran, Gunungsari, and Ciomas sub-district using purposive sampling. The examination of morphological characters data was conducted through observation and documentation. There were 13 species/varieties of Zingiberaceae collected from the studied area, i.e. Amomum compactum, Alpinia purpurata, Curcuma xanthorrhiza, C. longa, C. heyneana, C. mangga, C. aeruginosa, Kaempferia rotunda, Etlingera elatior, Zingiber zerumbet, Z. officinale, Zingiber officinale var. rubrum, and Z. cassumunar, in which the generative organs were found only in eight species/cultivars of them. Based on the morphological characters of vegetative organs, thirteen species/cultivars had a similarity distance coefficient from 37% to 94%; while based on the morphological characters of both vegetative and generative organs, the eight species/cultivars had a similarity distance coefficient from 31% to 94%. The results showed that using the characters of vegetative organs data were still able to provide consistent grouping results with the generative organs.

Morphological Characteristics of Kecombrang (Etlingera elatior (Jack) R. M. Smith) in Several Regions in Aceh Province, Sumatra

“…The number of plants observed in each determined area is three groves. Identification of plant characters includes stature, leaves, and inflorescences (Putri et al, 2017;Windarsih et al, 2021). Data analysis was carried out descriptively.…”

Potential Exploration and The Morphology of Zingiberaceae Leaves as Medicinal Plants in Bandar Lampung

“…The morphological characters have been widely used to help describe and identify the plant in the taxonomy field Hassemer et al, 2020). Traditionally, plant taxonomy relies on morphological characteristics for group division (Windarsih, et al, 2021) to reveal the development, form, and external structure of plants that are useful for studying the similarity of plants and origin. This study aimed to determine the morphological characteristics of Zingiberaceae leaves in Bandar Lampung.…”

Stomatal and epidermal characteristics of Zingiberaceae in Serang District, Banten, Indonesia

“…Zingiberaceae consists of about 53 genera and 1,500 species around the world (Furmuly and Azemi 2020). The distribution of Zingiberaceae spread widely in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, such as Asia (Zahara 2020;Furmuly and Azemi 2020), China (Zhao et al 2022), Thailand (Kajornjit et al 2018), Malaysia (Salasiah and Meekiong 2018), Indonesia (Windarsih et al 2021), India (Pemba and Sharangi 2017), West Africa, South America (Kaliyadasa and Samarasinghe 2019), Brunei (Zaini et al 2014), Singapore, Philippines (Zahara 2020), Sri Lanka (Karunarathne et al 2021), Japan (Elvira et al 2022), Vietnam (Leong et al 2016 and Australia (Setiawan et al 2021).…”

“…Zingiberaceae is a rhizomatous plant, annual or perennial herb (Kaliyadasa and Samarasinghe 2019), it has a fibrous root system, rhizomes grow creeping horizontally in the soil, roots usually emerging from the surface of rhizomes. Zingiberaceae has a single leaf, symmetrical leaf blade, leaves are arranged alternatively in two opposite rows, leaf sheaths wrap around the true stem to form a pseudo-stem (Windarsih et al 2021). Zingiberaceae is an economically important family for many utilization, such as traditional medicine, spice, ornamental plants, cosmetics, dye (Furmuly and Azemi 2020), food (Zahara 2020;Kaliyadasa and Samarasinghe 2019), aromatic agent, and insecticide (Zahara 2020).…”

“…Because of the importance of those plants' utilization in that region, it is necessary to determine the characters that can be used to help the identification process of Zingiberaceae. Twelve species of Zingiberaceae were successfully investigated from Serang District by Windarsih et al (2021) for identification based on morphological characters, included in Wurfbainia compacta, Alpinia purpurata, Curcuma xanthorrhiza, C. longa, C. heyneana, C. mangga, C. aeruginosa, Kaempferia rotunda, Etlingera elatior, Zingiber zerumbet, Z. officinale, and Z. cassumunar. But, the information on stomatal and epidermal characteristics of Zingiberaceae is still limited.…”