''Elettaria ensal'' is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by

Joseph Gaertner Joseph Gaertner (12 March 1732 – 14 July 1791) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, ''De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum'' (1788-1792). Biography He was born in Calw, and studied in Göttingen under Albrecht von Halle ...

, and got its current name from Bartholomeusz Aristides Abeywickrama. ''Elettaria ensal'' is part of the genus ''

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 a ...

'' 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 ...

References

Abeyw., 1959 ''In: Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci. 2: 145'' WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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