Aframomum exscapum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by John Sims and got its current name from Frank Nigel Hepper.
Its Susu name is dadigogo.H. Pobéguin, Essai sur la flore de la Guinée Francaise, Paris, ed. Augustin Challamel, 1906, p. 326. Another name is balancounfa. It was described in 1891 by Edouard Heckel, who wrongly attributed to it the name of Ceratanthera Beaumetzi.Edouard Heckel, Contribution à l'étude de l'état cléistogamique. Sur le Dadi-go ou Balancounfa (Ceratanthera Beaumetzi Ed. Heckel). Plante nouvelle cléistogame et distopique, usitée come tænifuge sur la côte occidentale de l'Afrique tropicale, Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille, t. 1, 1891, p. 19-46
References Hepper, 1967 In: Kew Bull. 21: 133