''Etlingera venusta'' is a monocotyledonous plant species first described by

Henry Nicholas Ridley Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees i ...

, and given its current name by

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 ...

. ''Etlingera venusta'' is part of the genus '' Etlingera'' 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 Af ...

. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.

References

R.M.Sm., 1986 ''In: Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 43: 250'' WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> {{Taxonbar, from=Q15327440 venusta Taxa named by Rosemary Margaret Smith