Genus: Kaempferia Linn.
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Habitat: |
Distributed from southern to south-eastern Asia. In India primarily found in north-eastern part and along the western ghat. |
Feature: |
.It consists of low herbs with a pronounced dormancy period. The stems are short or almost no stem, two to a few colourfully marked broad leaves and often with large showy flowers. Rhizome is thick and tuber like, less fibrous |
Economic Importance: |
Kaempferia is mostly useds as culinary herb and becuase of its colourfully marked leaves,the members have been promoted as ornamental plants. |
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| Medicinal Importance: |
Kaempferia medicinal uses is marked by its species K. galanga which is mostly used for treatment of rheumatism, abdominal discomfort and ear infection. | ||||||
Classification
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Subkingdom: | Viridaeplantae |
| Infrakingdom: | Streptophyta |
| Division: | Tracheophyta |
| subdivision: | Spermatophytina |
| Infradivision: | Angiospermae |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Superorder: | Lilianae | Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Kaempferia |
Phylogenetic description
Kaempferia is beleived to be monophylogenetic and is further divided into four clad. The relationship was first established by oberving the pattern of infloresence and later was restablished by using sequence information from ITS gene. For detailed phylogeny information continue
Related publications
1) Notes on the genus Kaempferia L. (Zingiberaceae) in Thailand. Chayan P, Supachai K. (2008). Thailand. Journal of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine. 6(1):73-93.2) Phylogeny of Hedychium and related genera (Zingiberaceae)based on ITS sequence data.Wood TH, Whiten WM, Williams NH. (2000) Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 57,261-270.
3) Ethnomedical uses of Zingiberaceous plants of Northeast India. Tushar, Basak S, Sarma GC, Rangan L. J Ethnopharmacol. 2010 Oct 28;132(1):286-96