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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zingiber

Hierarchical position of the Genus Zingiber

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.       Familia  Zingiberaceae Lindl. pub. Key Bot.: 69. 15-30 Sep 1835, nom. cons. common name: Gingers       Subfamilia  Zingiberoideae Blume ex Hassk. pub. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor.: 49. Oct 1844.       Tribus  Zingibereae Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Tab. Diagn. 388, Comm. 290. 17-20 Aug 1842.       Genus  Zingiber Boehm. pub. (1760) common name: ginger

Named members of the Genus Zingiber

1	Species  cassumunar Roxb. syn. Zingiber purpureum
2	Species  mioga (Thunb.) Roscoe common name: Mioga ginger
3	Species  officinale Roscoe common name: ginger, sheng jian  (Chinese), singabera  (Sanskrit)
4	Species  purpureum Roscoe common name: Cassumunar ginger
5	Species  zerumbet (L.) Sm. common name: bitter ginger
6	Species  zingiber (L.) Karst. syn. Zingiber officinale

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

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

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