Kaempferia
Appearance
Kaempferia | |
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Kaempferia rotunda | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Zingiberales |
Family: | Zingiberaceae |
Subfamily: | Zingiberoideae |
Tribe: | Zingibereae |
Genus: | Kaempferia L. |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Kaempferia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It is native to China, India, and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar etc.).[1][2][3]
Species
Over 100 names have been proposed in the genus. The following are accepted:[1]
- Kaempferia alboviolacea Ridl. - Vietnam
- Kaempferia angustifolia Roscoe - Bangladesh, Assam, Vietnam, Thailand, Sumatra
- Kaempferia attapeuensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
- Kaempferia champasakensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
- Kaempferia chayanii Koonterm - Laos
- Kaempferia cuneata Gagnep. - Vietnam
- Kaempferia elegans (Wall.) Baker in J.D.Hooker - Sichuan, Indochina, Borneo
- Kaempferia evansii Blatt. - southern India
- Kaempferia fallax Gagnep. - Laos, Thailand
- Kaempferia filifolia K.Larsen - Thailand
- Kaempferia fissa Gagnep. - Laos
- Kaempferia galanga L. - Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Indochina
- Kaempferia gigantiphylla Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
- Kaempferia gilbertii W.Bull - Myanmar
- Kaempferia glauca Ridl. - Thailand
- Kaempferia grandifolia Saensouk & Jenjitt. - Thailand
- Kaempferia harmandiana Gagnep. - Laos, Cambodia
- Kaempferia koratensis Picheans. - Thailand
- Kaempferia laotica Gagnep. - Laos, Thailand
- Kaempferia larsenii Sirirugsa - Thailand
- Kaempferia lopburiensis Picheans. - Thailand
- Kaempferia ovalifolia Roxb. - Myanmar
- Kaempferia parviflora Wall. ex Baker in J.D.Hooker - Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia
- Kaempferia philippinensis Merr. - Luzon
- Kaempferia purpurea J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius - Phuket
- Kaempferia roscoeana Wall. - Myanmar, Thailand
- Kaempferia rotunda L. - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan), India, Nepal, Assam, Bangladesh, Indochina; naturalized in Java, Malaysia and Costa Rica
- Kaempferia saraburiensis Picheans. - Thailand
- Kaempferia sawanensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
- Kaempferia siamensis Sirirugsa - Thailand
- Kaempferia simaoensis Y.Y.Qian - Yunnan
- Kaempferia sisaketensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Thailand
- Kaempferia spoliata Sirirugsa - Thailand
- Kaempferia undulata Teijsm. & Binn. - Java
References
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Flora of China v 24 p 368, 山柰属 shan nai shu, Kaempferia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 2. 1753.
- ^ Techaprasan, J., Klinbunga, S., Ngamriabsakul, C. & Jenjittikul, T. (2010). Genetic variation of Kaempferia (Zingiberaceae) in Thailand based on chloroplast DNA (psbA-trnH and petA-psbJ) sequences. Genetics and Molecular Research 9: 1957-1973.
External links
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