Phylogenetic description of the genus Kaempferia

Zingiber, reportedly is a monophyletic group (Kress et al., 2002) and have been classified, based on morphological data, into two clads. The phylogeny based on the sequences from the species which were collected and described here has two clads. The close clustering of the unidentified Kaempferia ornamental species inkles that they may be ecotype variant

	The evolutionary history based on the plastid gene matK and psbA-trnH in concatenation, inferred using the Neighbor-Joining method. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Kimura 2-parameter method.
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