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Kaempferia (Engelbert Kaempfer, 1631-1716, traveled in the Orient, and wrote on Japan). Zingiberaceae. Tuberous- or fleshy-rooted plants, grown for foliage and flowers.
Often stemless or apparently so, the few lvs. aggregated at the base and sometimes distichous on the St.: lvs. mostly broader than lanceolate: fls. in a bracted tuft or small cluster in the center of the lf. -clump, or in a peduncled raceme, often large and showy, white, yellow, violet or purple; calyx cylindrical or funnelform, toothed; corolla tubular, exserted, with narrow lobes; staminodia petal- like and the showy parts, one of them being a broad lip; fertile stamen 1.— More than 50 species in Trop. Asia and Afr. Schumann, Engler's Pflan- zenreich, hft. 20 (1904). For cult, see Hedychium and Zingiber.
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