''Aframomum flavum'' is a species in the ginger 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 Af ...

. It was first described by John Michael Lock.

References

Lock, 1978 ''In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 48: 394'' flavum {{zingiberales-stub