Checklist of Plants of India

Hedychium forrestii Diels, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 304. 1912.

Hedychium dekianum A.S. Rao & D.M. Verma, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 11: 122. 1969.

var. forestii
Meghalaya.

var. palaniense Sanoj & M. Sabu in E. Sanoj & al., J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 4: 634. 2010.
Endemic to India: Tamil Nadu.