Zingiberaceae

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Zingiberaceae
Ginger family
Red Torch (Etlingera elatior)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Martinov
Type genus
Zingiber
Boehm.
Subdivisions
see text
Curcuma longa
Zingiberaceae /zndbresi/ is the name of a family, the ginger
family, of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs
with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising about 52
genera and more than 1300 species, distributed throughout tropical
Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Many species are important ornamental plants, spices, 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).
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Elettaria cardamomum
Globba inflorescence.
Characteristics
Members of the family are small to large herbaceous plants with
distichous leaves with basal sheaths that overlap to form a
pseudostem. The plants are either self-supporting or epiphytic.
Flowers are hermaphroditic, usually strongly zygomorphic, in
determinate cymose inflorescences, and subtended by conspicuous,
spirally arranged bracts. The perianth is composed of two whorls, a
fused tubular calyx, and a tubular corolla with one lobe larger than
the other two. Flowers typically have two of their stamenoids (sterile
stamens) fused to form a petaloid lip, and have only one fertile
stamen. The ovary is inferior and topped by two nectaries, the stigma
is funnel-shaped.
Some genera yield essential oils used in the perfume industry
(Alpinia, Hedychium).
Distribution
The Zingiberaceae have a pantropical distribution in the tropics of
Africa, Asia, and the Americas, with their greatest diversity in
Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Siphonochiloideae
Tribe Siphonochileae
Aulotandra
Siphonochilus
Subfamily Tamijioideae
Tribe Tamijieae
Tamijia
Subfamily Alpinioideae
Tribe Alpinieae
Aframomum - grains of paradise
Alpinia - galangal
Amomum
Cyphostigma
Elettaria - cardamom
Elettariopsis
Etlingera
Geocharis
Geostachys
Hornstedtia
Leptosolena
Paramomum
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Zingiber spectabile cultivar Beehive
Plagiostachys
Renealmia
Siliquamomum (incertae sedis)
Vanoverberghia
Alpingera F. Luc-Cayol (Alpinia Etlingera) - intergeneric hybrid
Tribe Riedelieae
Burbidgea
Pleuranthodium
Riedelia
Siamanthus
Subfamily Zingiberoideae
Tribe Zingibereae
Boesenbergia
Camptandra
Caulokaempferia (incertae sedis)
Cautleya
Cornukaempferia
Curcuma - turmeric
Curcumorpha
Distichochlamys
Haniffia
Haplochorema
Hedychium
Hitchenia
Kaempferia
Laosanthus
Nanochilus
Paracautleya
Parakaempferia
Pommereschea
Pyrgophyllum
Rhynchanthus
Roscoea
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Scaphochlamys
Smithatris
Stadiochilus
Stahlianthus
Zingiber - ginger
Tribe Globbeae
Gagnepainia
Globba
Hemiorchis
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zingiberaceae.
Wikispecies has information related to: Zingiberaceae
The phylogeny and a new classification of the gingers (Zingiberaceae): evidence from molecular data (http:/ /
www. amjbot. org/ cgi/ content/ abstract/ 89/ 10/ 1682)
Abstracts from the Symposia on the Family Zingiberaceae (http:/ / www. curcuma. net/ interests/
Proceedings-Symposium-Family-Zingiberaceae. html)
A New Classification of the Zingiberaceae from the Third Symposium on Zingiberaceae (http:/ / www.
gingersrus. com/ Symposium/ presentations/ NewClassification. htm)
Zomlefer, W.B. Flowering Plant Families. The University of North Carolina Press. 1994.
External links
List of Indian medicinal plants (http:/ / www. biodiversityofindia. org/ index.
php?title=List_of_Indian_medicinal_plants) from Biodiversity of India (http:/ / www. biodiversityofindia. org)
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