A genus or classification of plants; a variant or related form of amomum.
From Greek amodon/amomon (a spice plant) + -is (Latin ending). Variant botanical naming in historical plant classifications.
This is one of those scientific names that shows how botanists across different centuries and countries sometimes created slightly different names for the same plant—before everyone agreed on one naming system, there was delightful chaos in how they called exotic spices.
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