Amberstia Wallich in Taylor & Philips, Phil. Mag. n.s. 3 (1828) 233; Pl. As. Rar. 1 (1829) 1, t. 1, 2; Cowan & Polhill in Polhill & Raven (eds.), Adv. Leg. Syst. 1 (1981) 141; Mabberley, Taxon 31 (1982) 67; Watson & Dallwitz, Gen. Leg.-Caesalp. (1983) 8; Hou, Larsen & Larsen, Fl. Malesiana 12 (1996) 717.
Type species: Amherstia nobilis Wallich.