<botany> A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. Triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.

Origin: NL. So called after the German botanists, J. G. H. & W. H. Kramer.

(01 Mar 1998)

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