Zingiberales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Zingiberales

aframomum
alligator-flag
alpinia
arrowroots
banana
bijao
bird-of-paradises
boesenbergia
calathea
canna
cardamom
cardamon
chavar
costus
curcuma
elettaria
ensete
galanga
gingers
grains of paradise
heliconia
hitchenia
kaempferia
llerenes
mango ginger
maranta
marantochloa
melegueta pepper
miracle fruit
myrosma
pampano
plantain
rattlesnake plant
renealmia
resurrection lily
thaumatococcus
torch-ginger
traveler's tree
waxflower
zebraplant

Hierarchical position of the Order Zingiberales

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Zingiberidae Cronquist
pub. 1978
  
   SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb.
pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.
  

Named members of the Order Zingiberales

1
   Familia  Cannaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 62. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Cannas
  
2
   Familia  Costaceae Nakai
pub. J. Jap. Bot. 17: 203. Apr 1941.
3
   Familia  Heliconiaceae (A. Rich.) Nakai
pub. J. Jap. Bot. 17: 201. Apr 1941.
common name: Heliconias
4
   Familia  Lowiaceae Ridl.
pub. Fl. Malay Penins. 4: 291. 1 Dec 1924, nom. cons.
5
   Familia  Marantaceae Petersen in Engl. & Prantl
pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., II, 6: 33. Oct 1888, nom. cons.
common name: Arrowroots
  
6
   Familia  Musaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 61. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Bananas
  
7
   Familia  Strelitziaceae (K. Schum.) Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 72. 1934.
common name: Bird-of-Paradises
  
8
   Familia  Zingiberaceae Lindl.
pub. Key Bot.: 69. 15-30 Sep 1835, nom. cons.
common name: Gingers
  

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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