Taxonomic history:
1753: Linnaeus described this species as Amomum grana-paradisi in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 2.
today: The current name for this species is Aframomum melegueta (Roscoe) K. Schum.
original Latin description
Amomum scapo vestito racemoso.
English translation
Amomum with a scape clothed [with ?] [and] racemose.
| Amomum | Amomum |
| with a scape | scapo - ablative singular of 2nd declension masculine noun scapus, -i |
| clothed [with ?] | vestito - ablative singular masculine of group A adjective vestitus, -a, -um; modifies scapo |
| [and] | added for smoother reading |
| racemose. | racemoso - ablative singular masculine of group A adjective racemosus, -a, -um; modifies spica |