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Ginger family
Red Torch (Etlingera elatior)
Red Torch (Etlingera elatior)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Lindley
Type genus
Zingiber
Boehm. 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 John Lindley ( February 8, 1799 - November 1, 1865) was an English Botanist. In biology a type is that which fixes a name to a Taxon. Depending on the nomenclature code which is applied to the organism in question a type may be a specimen The Genus Zingiber contains the true Gingers a set of plants with medicinal and culinary value in many parts of the world
Subdivisions

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Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising ca. Common land (a common) is a piece of land owned by one person but over which other people can exercise certain traditional rights such as allowing their livestock to graze A perennial plant or perennial ( Latin per, "through" annus, "year" is a Plant that lives for more than A(n herb (ˈhɝb or /ˈɝb/ see pronunciation differences) is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties flavor scent or the like In Botany, a rhizome is a horizontal stem of a Plant that is usually found underground often sending out Roots and Shoots 52 genera and more than 1300 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia and the Americas. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank.

Many species are important ornamental plants, spices, or medicinal plants. A spice is a dried Seed, Fruit, Root, Bark or vegetative substance used in Nutritionally insignificant quantities as a Food additive Herbalism is a traditional Medicinal or Folk medicine practice based on the use of Plants and Plant extracts Herbalism is also known as Ornamental genera include the shell gingers (Alpinia), Siam or summer tulip (Curcuma alismatifolia), Globba, ginger lily (Hedychium), Kaempferia, torch-ginger Nicolaia, Renealmia, and ginger (Zingiber). Alpinia is a Genus of Plants with more than 230 species from the Ginger family ( Zingiberaceae) The Siam Tulip or Summer Tulip ( Curcuma alismatifolia) is a tropical plant native to northern Thailand and Cambodia. Hedychium is a Genus of Perennial plants native to tropical Asia and the Himalayas, commonly growing to between 120 and 180 cm Renealmia is a Plant Genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Species include Renealmia alpinia The Genus Zingiber contains the true Gingers a set of plants with medicinal and culinary value in many parts of the world Spices include ginger (Zingiber), galangal or Thai ginger (Alpinia galanga and others), melegueta pepper (Aframomum melegueta), myoga (Zingiber mioga), turmeric (Curcuma), cardamom (Amomum, Elettaria). Ginger is commonly used as a cooking spice throughout the world The Genus Zingiber contains the true Gingers a set of plants with medicinal and culinary value in many parts of the world The Galangal plant or Blue Ginger is a Rhizome with culinary and medicinal uses (Thai Ka (ข่า Malay lengkuas (Alpinia galangal Traditional Mandarin Alpinia galanga, a plant in the ginger family, is an herb used in cooking especially in Indonesian cuisine and Thai cuisine. For the similarly-named Luso-Brazilian chili pepper see Malagueta pepper. Myōga (茗荷 or myoga ginger ( Zingiber mioga, Zingiberaceae) is an herbaceous deciduous perennial native to Japan that is Turmeric ( Curcuma longa) is a Rhizomatous Herbaceous Perennial plant of the Ginger family Zingiberaceae Curcuma ( Cúr-cu-ma) is a Genus of about 80 accepted species in the plant family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as The name cardamom (or cardamon is used for herbs within two genera of the Ginger family Zingiberaceae, namely Elettaria and Amomum Amomum is a Genus of Plant, including several types of Cardamom --especially Black Cardamom --in the order Zingiberales Elettaria is a genus of one or two species of Cardamoms native to southeastern Asia from India south to Sri Lanka and east to

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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. An epiphyte is an organism that grows upon or attaches to a living plant Flowers are hermaphroditic, usually strongly zygomorphic, in determinate cymose inflorescences, and subtended by conspicuous, spirally arranged bracts. A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also A hermaphrodite is an organism having both male and female reproductive organs Floral symmetry refers to whether and how a Flower can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts An inflorescence is a group or cluster of Flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main Branch or a complicated arrangement of branches The perianth is comprised 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 stamen ( Plural stamina or stamens, from Latin stamen meaning "thread of the warp " is the male 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). An essential oil is a concentrated Hydrophobic Liquid containing volatile Aroma compounds from Plants They are also known as volatile Alpinia is a Genus of Plants with more than 230 species from the Ginger family ( Zingiberaceae) Hedychium is a Genus of Perennial plants native to tropical Asia and the Himalayas, commonly growing to between 120 and 180 cm

Distribution

The Zingiberaceae has a pantropical distribution--found in the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas--with its greatest diversity in Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

Globba inflorescense.
Globba inflorescense.

Intergeneric hybrid

References

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