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Zingiberales
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Alpinia zerumbet, a popular ornamental of the Zingerbaceae.

Alpinia zerumbet, a popular ornamental of the Zingerbaceae.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Liliopsida
Order:Zingiberales
Griseb.
Families
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Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, and myoga of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family, and banana of the Musaceae or banana family, along with arrowroot of the Marantaceae or arrowroot family.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognises this order and assigns it to the clade commelinids, in the monocots. It is circumscribed as: The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised this order consisting of the same eight families, but organized the order in the subclass Zingiberidae of the class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons].

Earlier systems, such as the Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, and the Engler system, updated in 1964, recognised a similar order (containing the same plants, although divided over fewer families) under the name Scitamineae.

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A. zerumbet

Binomial name
Alpinia zerumbet
(Pers.) B. L. Burtt and R. M. Smith

Alpinia zerumbet (Light galangal, Pink porcelain lily, Shell flower, Shell ginger
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]

Divisions

Green algae
  • Chlorophyta
  • Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
  • Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Liliopsida is a botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family). It is considered synonymous (or nearly synonymous) with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli (in 1760): see author citation (botany).
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August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.

Works

  • Die Vegetation der Erde nach Ihrer Klimatischen Anordnung

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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Zingiberaceae

Genera

Amomum
Elettaria
The name cardamom is used for herbs within two genera of the ginger family Zingiberaceae, namely Elettaria and Amomum.
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Curcuma longa]]
Curcuma longa


Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida
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Z. mioga

Binomial name
Zingiber mioga
(Thunb.) Roscoe

Myōga (茗荷) or myoga ginger (Zingiber mioga
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Zingiberaceae
Lindley

Type genus
Zingiber
Boehm.

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
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BANANA (an acronym of Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything or possibly Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone
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Musaceae
Juss.

     Musaceae distribution


Genera

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    M. arundinacea

    Binomial name
    Maranta arundinacea
    L.

    Arrowroot, or obedience plant, (Maranta arundinacea) is a large perennial herb of genus Maranta
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    Marantaceae
    R.Br.

    Genera
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    The Marantaceae or arrowroot family is a family of flowering plants known for its large starchy rhizomes. It is sometimes called the prayer-plant family.
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    A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in
    Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003).

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    A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistic analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes
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    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 turn is a clade within the angiosperms.
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    Monocotyledones

    orders
    about 10; see text

    Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of flowering plants (angiosperms) that are traditionally recognized, dicotyledons or dicots being the other.
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    Cannaceae

    Genus: Canna

    Species
    19 classified species, see list below

    Canna (or Canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants.
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    Costaceae

    Genera
    • Monocostus
    • Dimerocostus
    • Chamaecostus
    • Costus
    • Paracostus
    • Cheilocostus
    • Tapeinochilos


    Costaceae or the Costus
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    Heliconiaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. 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
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    Lowiaceae
    Ridl.

    Genus: Orchidantha

    Species
    See text

    Orchidantha is a genus of flowering plants, often given its own family, Lowiaceae.
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    Marantaceae
    R.Br.

    Genera
    See text

    The Marantaceae or arrowroot family is a family of flowering plants known for its large starchy rhizomes. It is sometimes called the prayer-plant family.
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    Musaceae
    Juss.

         Musaceae distribution


    Genera

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      commelinids

      Order: Zingiberales

      Family: Strelitziaceae
      Endl.

      Strelitziaceae distribution map


      Genera
      See text.
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      Zingiberaceae
      Lindley

      Type genus
      Zingiber
      Boehm.

      Subdivisions
      see text

      Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous
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      A system of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992) in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and
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