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Heliconiaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Zingiberales is an order of Flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists at least for the past few decades A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN and if the plant is a Cultigen, the In Biological classification, family ( Latin The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group For the past few decades, such a family has usually been recognized by taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes this family, and places it in the order Zingiberales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. Zingiberales is an order of Flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists at least for the past few decades In Plant taxonomy, the name commelinids (plural not capitalised is used by the APG II system for a Clade within the Monocots, which in its Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of Flowering plants (angiosperms that are traditionally recognised the other being Dicotyledons The family consists of a single genus, Heliconia. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Heliconia is a Genus of about 100 to 200 species of Flowering plants native to the tropical Americas and the Pacific Ocean islands
External links
- Heliconiaceae in L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 27th April 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- Monocot families (USDA)
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL
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