Zingiberaceae Martinov

Ginger Family

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Plants > Angiosperms > Zingiberaceae

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Class: Monocots
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae

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​Zingiberaceae or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Many of the family's species are important ornamental, spice, or medicinal plants. Ornamental genera include the shell gingers (Alpinia), Siam or summer tulip (Curcuma alismatifolia), Globba, ginger lily (Hedychium), Kaempferia, torch-ginger Etlingera elatior, Renealmia, and ginger (Zingiber). Spices include ginger (Zingiber), galangal or Thai ginger (Alpinia galanga and others), melegueta pepper (Aframomum melegueta), myoga (Zingiber mioga), korarima (Aframomum corrorima), turmeric (Curcuma), and cardamom (Amomum, Elettaria). Wikipedia

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Genera: Alpinia, Amomum, Boesenbergia, Cautleya, Curcuma, Etlingera, Globba, Hedychium, Kaempferia, Zingiber

Alpinia conchigera

Alpinia malaccensis

Alpinia purpurata

Amomum biflorum

Boesenbergia maxwellii

Boesenbergia parvula

Boesenbergia rotunda

Cautleya gracilis

Curcuma alismatifolia

Curcuma ecomata

Curcuma longa

Curcuma parviflora

Curcuma roscoeana

Curcuma singularis

Curcuma sp. 001

Curcuma sp. 002

Etlingera araneosa

Etlingera elatior

Globba leucantha

Globba obscura

Globba purpurascens

Globba racemosa

Globba schombergkii

Kaempferia angustiflolia

Kaempferia laotica

Kaempferia rotunda

Hedychium stenopetalum

Zingiber junceum

Zingiber parishii

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References: 
Wikipedia