Hellenia
# Hellenia

Hellenia is a genus of plants in the Costaceae described as a genus with this name in 1791. It is native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, and Queensland. The type species was "H. grandiflora" Retz., which is a synonym of Hellenia speciosa.

## Species

Plants of the World Online currently includes the following (with some botanists preferring to retain the genus Cheilocostus):

* Hellenia borneensis (A.D.Poulsen) Govaerts
* Hellenia globosa (Blume) S.R.Dutta - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
* Hellenia lacera (Gagnep.) Govaerts
* Hellenia sopuensis (Maas & H.Maas) Govaerts
* Hellenia speciosa (J.Koenig) S.R.Dutta (synonym Cheilocostus speciosus) - China, Indian Subcontinent, Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Queensland; naturalized in Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii, Central America, West Indies

### formerly included

now in other genera: Alpinia Hornstedtia Plagiostachys

* H. abnormis - Alpinia chinensis
* H. alba - Alpinia galanga
* H. allughas - Alpinia nigra
* H. aquatica - Alpinia aquatica
* H. arctiflora - Alpinia arctiflora
* H. bracteata - Alpinia ludwigiana
* H. caerulea - Alpinia caerulea
* H. chinensis - Alpinia chinensis
* H. gracilis - Alpinia elegans
* H. melanocarpa - Alpinia aquatica
* H. parviflora - Plagiostachys parviflora
* H. pubiflora - Alpinia pubiflora
* H. rubra - Hornstedtia rubra
* H. rufa - Alpinia rufa
* H. scabra - Alpinia scabra
