Cekur

Cekur atau kencur ialah tumbuhan genus Kaempferia dalam keluarga halia. Ia tempatan di China, India, dan Asia Tenggara.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFlora of China v 24 p 368, 山柰属 shan nai shu, Kaempferia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 2. 1753. 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. 

Genus ini dinamakan sempena seorang  ahli alamiah dan penjelajah, Engelbert Kaempfer, yang pernah tinggal di Jepun dan Asia timur untuk tahun 1689-1693, dan salah seorang Eropah sulung yang menulis penerangan terperinci tentang tumbuhan di sana.

 Spesies 
Lebih 100 nama telah dicadangkan dalam genus ini. Berikut yang diterima:

 Kaempferia albiflora Jenjitt. & Ruchis. - Thailand
 Kaempferia alboviolacea Ridl. - Vietnam
 Kaempferia angustifolia Roscoe - Bangladesh, Assam, Vietnam, Thailand, Sumatera
 Kaempferia attapeuensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
 Kaempferia aurora Noppornch. & Jenjitt. - Thailand
 Kaempferia caespitosa Noppornch. & Jenjitt. - Thailand
 Kaempferia champasakensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
 Kaempferia chayanii Koonterm - Laos
 Kaempferia cuneata Gagnep. - Vietnam
 Kaempferia elegans (Wall.) Baker in J.D.Hooker - cekur batik - Sichuan, Indochina, Borneo
 Kaempferia evansii Blatt. - southern India
 Kaempferia fallax Gagnep. - Laos, Thailand
 Kaempferia filifolia K.Larsen - Thailand
 Kaempferia fissa Gagnep. - Laos
 Kaempferia galanga L. - cekur putih - Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Indochina
 Kaempferia gigantiphylla Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
 Kaempferia gilbertii W.Bull - Myanmar
 Kaempferia glauca Ridl.  - Thailand
 Kaempferia graminifolia Noppornch. & Jenjitt. - Thailand
 Kaempferia grandifolia Saensouk & Jenjitt. - Thailand
 Kaempferia harmandiana Gagnep. - Laos, Kemboja
 Kaempferia isanensis Saensouk & P.Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia jenjittikuliae Noppornch. - ThailandN. Nopporncharoenkul, T. Somnoo, W. Tanming and C. Maknoi. 2021. Kaempferia jenjittikuliae (Kaempferia Subg. Protanthium: Zingiberaceae), A New, Endangered Species Endemic to Thailand. Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 78; 1-13. journals.rbge.org.uk/EJB/article/view/350
 Kaempferia kamolwaniae Picheans., Meechonkit & Wongsuwan - Thailand
 Kaempferia kamthornii Picheans. & Meechonkit - Thailand
 Kaempferia koontermii Prasarn, Wongsuwan & Picheans. - Thailand
 Kaempferia koratensis Picheans. - Thailand
 Kaempferia laotica Gagnep. - Laos, Thailand
 Kaempferia larsenii Sirirugsa - Thailand
 Kaempferia lopburiensis Picheans. - Thailand
 Kaempferia maculifolia Boonma & Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia mahasarakhamensis Saensouk & P. Saensouk  - Thailand
 Kaempferia minuta Jenjitt. & K.Larsen - Thailand
 Kaempferia napavarniae Saensouk, P.Saensouk & Boonma - Thailand
 Kaempferia nemoralis Insis. - Kemboja
 Kaempferia nigrifolia Boonma & Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia noctiflora Noppornch. & Jenjitt.
 Kaempferia ovalifolia Roxb. - Myanmar
 Kaempferia pardi K.Larsen & Jenjitt. - Thailand
 Kaempferia parviflora Wall. ex Baker in J.D.Hooker - Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Kemboja
 Kaempferia pascuorum Insis. - Laos
 Kaempferia philippinensis Merr. - Luzon
 Kaempferia phuphanensis Saensouk & P.Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia picheansoonthonii Wongsuwan & Phokham - Thailand
 Kampferia pseudoparviflora Saensouk dan Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia pulchra Ridl. - cekur hitam - Semenanjung, Thailand
 Kaempferia purpurea J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius - Phuket
 Kaempferia roscoeana Wall. - Myanmar, Thailand
 Kaempferia rotunda L. - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan), India, Nepal, Assam, Bangladesh, Indochina; disebarkan di Jawa, Malaysia dan Costa Rica
 Kaempferia sakonensis Saensouk, P.Saensouk & Boonma - Thailand
 Kaempferia saraburiensis Picheans. - Thailand 
 Kaempferia sawanensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Laos
 Kaempferia siamensis Sirirugsa - Thailand 
 Kaempferia simaoensis Y.Y.Qian - Yunnan
 Kaempferia sipraiana Boonma & Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia sisaketensis Picheans. & Koonterm - Thailand 
 Kaempferia spoliata Sirirugsa - Thailand 
 Kaempferia takensis Boonma & Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia udonensis Picheans. & Phokham - Thailand
 Kaempferia undulata Teijsm. & Binn. - Jawa
 Kaempferia unifolia Saensouk & P.Saensouk - Thailand
 Kaempferia uttaraditensis Picheans. & Meechonkit - Thailand
 Kaempferia xiengkhouangensis Picheans. & Phokham - Laos

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