Ginger faimily
Reid Torch (Etlingera elatior)
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Faimily: Zingiberaceae
Martinov[1]
Teep genus
Zingiber
Boehm.
Subdiveesions

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Zingiberaceae is the name o a faimily, the ginger faimily, o flouerin plants consisting o aromatic perennial yerbs wi creepin horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprisin aboot 52 genera an mair nor 1300 species, distributit throughoot tropical Africae, Asie, an the Americas.

Taxonomy

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Cladogram: Phylogeny o Zingiberales[2]
Zingiberales
Zingiberineae
Zingiberariae

Zingiberaceae

Costaceae

Cannariae

Cannaceae

Marantaceae

Strelitziineae

Lowiaceae

Strelitziaceae

Heliconiaceae

Musaceae

Subdiveesions

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Curcuma longa
 
Elettaria cardamomum
 
Globba inflorescence.
 
Zingiber spectabile cultivar Beehive

References

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  1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 25 Mey 2017. Retrieved 6 Julie 2013.
  2. Sass et al 2016.