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This species is accepted, and its native range is India to China (S. Yunnan) and Indo-China.

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Introduced into:

China Southeast, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan

Kaempferia galanga L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Gollifer, D.E., Solomon Is. 6049.176
Ramos, M. [14952], Philippines K000255409 Unknown type material
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6581] K001124249

First published in Sp. Pl.: 3 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
  • 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.
  • Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
  • Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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