Kaempferia galanga: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Zingiberales
- Family
- Zingiberaceae
- Genus
- Kaempferia
- Species
- Kaempferia galanga
- Scientific Name
- Kaempferia galanga
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Kaempferia galanga
Kaempferia galanga, commonly known as kencur, aromatic ginger, sand ginger, cutcherry, is a monocotyledonous plant in the ginger family, and one of four plants called galangal. It is found primarily in open areas in Indonesia, southern China, Taiwan, Cambodia, and India, but is also widely cultivated throughout Southeast Asia.
...Kaempferia galanga in languages:
- Chinese
- 山柰
- Chinese
- 山柰、沙薑
- English
- Aromatic Ginger
- English
- Sand Ginger
- English
- Cutcherry
- Indonesian
- Kencur
- Japanese
- バンウコン
- Portuguese
- cananga-do-japão
- Russian
- Кемпферия галанга
- Thai
- เปราะหอม
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Kaempferia angustifolia
- Kaempferia attapeuensis
- Kaempferia elegans
- Kaempferia evansii
- Kaempferia fallax
- Kaempferia filifolia
- Kaempferia galanga
- Kaempferia gigantiphylla
- Kaempferia gilbertii
- Kaempferia glauca
- Kaempferia koontermii
- Kaempferia koratensis
- Kaempferia laotica
- Kaempferia larsenii
- Kaempferia maculifolia
- Kaempferia mahasarakhamensis
- Kaempferia minuta
- Kaempferia napavarniae
- Kaempferia nigrifolia
- Kaempferia pardi
- Kaempferia parviflora
- Kaempferia phuphanensis
- Kaempferia picheansoonthonii
- Kaempferia pseudoparviflora
- Kaempferia pulchra
- Kaempferia roscoeana
- Kaempferia sakonensis
- Kaempferia saraburiensis
- Kaempferia siamensis
- Kaempferia sisaketensis
- Kaempferia spoliata





















































