''Geostachys'' is a genus of plants in the
Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae () or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical ...
. It is native to
southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
.
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/ref>[Lau, K.H. & Lim, C.K. (2012). Revision of the genus ''Geostachys'' (Zingiberaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia. Folia Malaysiana 13: 7-42.]
; species
References
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Alpinioideae
Zingiberaceae genera
Taxa named by John Gilbert Baker
Taxa named by Henry Nicholas Ridley