''Sulettaria surculosa'' is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by

Karl Moritz Schumann Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist. Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. ...

, and received its current name from Brian Laurence Burtt and

Rosemary Margaret Smith Rosemary Margaret Smith (1933–2004) was a Scottish botanist and illustrator who specialized in the taxonomy of the Zingiberaceae, or ginger family. Many of the species she classified and identified as being placed into improper genera were fou ...

. ''Sulettaria surculosa'' is part of the genus ''

Sulettaria ''Sulettaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. The species of the genus were formerly placed in the genus ''Elettaria'' until 2018. ''Sulettaria'' are native to Malaysia and Indonesia Indonesia, officially th ...

'' and the family

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 ...

. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life. It was reclassified from ''

Elettaria ''Elettaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. They are native to India and Sri Lanka, but cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. One member of the genus, '' E. cardamomum'', is a commercially important spice used as ...

'' into ''Sulettaria'' in 2018:

References

B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm., 1972 ''In: Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 31: 312'' WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> {{Taxonbar, from=Q89253317 surculosa Taxa named by Rosemary Margaret Smith