Hedychium is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, native to lightly wooded habitats in Asia.

Members of the genus Hedychium are rhizomatous perennials, commonly growing 120–180 cm (47–71 in) tall.

Some species are cultivated for their exotic foliage and fragrant spikes of flowers in shades of white, yellow and orange.

In 2000, Tom Wood et al. published the first phylogeny of the genus Hedychium represented by 29 taxa.

[7] Hedychium has multiple modes of reproduction: sexual, via rhizomes and via bulbils.