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''Burbidgea'' is a genus of plants in 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 Af ...
. There are five known species, all endemic to the island of Borneo.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> Species accepted: * '' Burbidgea longiflora'' (Ridl.) R.M.Sm. — Sarawak * '' Burbidgea nitida'' Hook.f. — Sarawak * '' Burbidgea pauciflora'' Valeton — Borneo * '' Burbidgea schizocheila'' Hackett — Sabah, Sarawak * '' Burbidgea stenantha'' Ridl. — Borneo


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Alpinioideae Zingiberaceae genera Endemic flora of Borneo Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker {{Zingiberales-stub