Description | The word galangal, or its variant galanga, can refer in common usage to the aromatic rhizome of any of four plant species in the Zingiberaceae (ginger) family, namely: Alpinia galanga, greater galangal; Alpinia officinarum, lesser galangal, Kaempferia galanga, also called kencur, black galangal or sand ginger, and Boesenbergia rotunda, also called Chinese ginger or fingerroot; Kaempferia galanga, also called kencur, black galangal or sand ginger. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galangal]
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