Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Liliopsida Batsch - monocotyledons |
| order | Zingiberales Grisebach |
| family | Zingiberaceae Lindl. |
| subfamily | Siphonochiloideae W. J. Kress |
| genus | Siphonochilus J.M. Wood & Franks |
| species | Siphonochilus aethiopicus (Schweinf.) B.L. Burtt |