Zingiberidae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Sublass Zingiberidae

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 Sublass Zingiberidae

   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
  

Named members of the Sublass Zingiberidae

1
   SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
 
2
   Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb.
pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.
  
 

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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