Genus of flowering plants
Kaempferia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It is native to China, India, and Southeast Asia.
The genus is named after the naturalist and traveller Engelbert Kaempfer, who lived in Japan and east Asia for the years 1689-1693 and was one of the first Europeans to write detailed descriptions of plants there.
Species.
Over 100 names have been proposed in the genus. The following are accepted:
Research.
Three species of "Kaempferia", i.e., "K. galanga, K. rotunda", and "K. angustifolia", are well studied for their essential oils along with other important phytochemical and medicinal properties. The micropropagation procedures of "K. galanga" and "K. rotunda" have been studied by many groups for more than two decades, but "in vitro" propagation of "Kaempferia angustifolia" was the first reported in 2018.
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