Camphora is a genus of evergreen plants belonging to the laurel family Lauraceae, previously considered a synonym of Cinnamomum.

The genus contains approximately 20 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia.

The flowers are bisexual, with nine fertile stamens, plus three staminodes with conspicuous cordate or sagittate heads in the fourth androecial whorl.

[1] The genus Camphora was described in 1759 by the German botanist Philipp Conrad Fabricius.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022 found that the large genus Cinnamomum was polyphyletic; in the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the following 18 species are placed in the resurrected genus Camphora:[1] The following species were classified in the Sect.