Smithatris

taxobox
name = "Smithatris"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Zingiberales
familia = Zingiberaceae
genus = "Smithatris"
genus_authority = W.J.Kress & K.Larsen
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = *"Smithatris myanmarensis"
*"Smithatris supraneeana"|

"Smithatris" is a new genus of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). The first species of this genus, "Smithatris supraneeana", was discovered in 1998 by Kress and Larsen, two researchers from Denmark, in the limestone hills of Saraburi Province,Thailand. The genus was thought to be monospecific then until a second species, "Smithatris myanmarensis", was discovered later in Myanmar.