Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 3 [secondary reference]

• Type: (not designated).

Hitchcock, A.S. (1 November 1923), Type species of the first 100 genera of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum. American Journal of Botany 10(9): 514 [secondary reference]

• Type: Kaempferia galanga L.

Smith, R.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Zingiberaceae. Flora of Australia 45: 23 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Larsen, K., Lock, J.M., Maas, H & Maas, P.J.M. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Zingiberaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 485-486 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 448 [secondary reference]

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