ABSTRACT
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum Maton) belongs to the monocotyledonous family Zingiberaceae (ginger family) of the natural order Scitaminae. The genus Elettaria consists of about six or seven species distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia; only E. cardamomum is economically important (Holttum, 1950; Willis, 1967; Mabberley, 1987).
