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Zingiberaceae Endangered

Synonyms: Alpiniaceae; Amomaceae; Curcumaceae

Wikipedia Abstract

Zingiberaceae (/ˌzɪndʒɪbəˈreɪsiː/) 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.
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Genus

Adelmeria (4)
Aframomum (aframomum) (11)
Alpinia (alpinia) (9)
Amomum (cardamom) (6)
Boesenbergia (boesenbergia) (3)
Burbidgea (2)
Conamomum (3)
Curcuma (curcuma) (13)
Cyphostigma (1)
Epiamomum (4)
Etlingera (waxflower) (32)
Geocharis (3)
Geostachys (10)
Globba (13)
Haniffia (1)
Hedychium (garland-lily) (5)
Hornstedtia (3)
Lanxangia (1)
Larsenianthus (1)
Meistera (3)
Myxochlamys (1)
Nanochilus (1)
Parakaempferia (1)
Plagiostachys (4)
Pleuranthodium (3)
Scaphochlamys (13)
Siliquamomum (3)
Sulettaria (1)
Sundamomum (7)
Wurfbainia (2)
Zingiber (ginger) (29)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0