Zingiberaceae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zingiberales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Zingiberales

Familia: Zingiberaceae
Subfamiliae (4): Alpinioideae – Siphonochiloideae – Tamijioideae – Zingiberoideae

Overview of genera

Adelmeria – Aframomum – Alpinia – Amomum – Aulotandra – Boesenbergia – Burbidgea – Camptandra – Caulokaempferia – Cautleya – Conamomum – Cornukaempferia – Curcuma – Cyphostigma – Distichochlamys – Elettaria – Elettariopsis – Epiamomum – Etlingera – Gagnepainia – Geocharis – Geostachys – Globba – Haniffia – Hedychium – Hemiorchis – Hornstedtia – Johoralia – Kaempferia – Kedhalia – Lanxangia – Larsenianthus – Leptosolena – Meistera – Myxochlamys – Nanochilus – Newmania – Parakaempferia – Perakalia – Plagiostachys – Pleuranthodium – Pommereschea – Pyrgophyllum – Renealmia – Rhynchanthus – Riedelia – Roscoea – Scaphochlamys – Siamanthus – Siliquamomum – Siphonochilus – Stadiochilus – Stahlianthus – Sulettaria – Sundamomum – Tamijia – Vanoverberghia – Wurfbainia – Zingiber

Name

Zingiberaceae Martynov Tekhno-Bot. Slovar. 682. (1820) nom. cons.

Type genus: Zingiber Mill. Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4 vol. 3. (1754)

Synonyms

Alpiniaceae Link
Amomaceae Jaume Saint-Hilaire

References

Martinov, I.I. (Мартыновъ, И.И.) 1820. Техно-ботаническiй словарь, на латинскомъ и россiйскомъ языкахъ, составленный […]. [Techno-Botanical Dictionary, in Latin and Russian, compiled by [...]]. i-vi, 682 p. St.-Petersburg: v tipografii Imperatorskoj Rossijskoj Akademii [Nauk] (Russian) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.96260 Google Books Reference page.
de Boer, H., Newman, M., Poulsen, A.D., Droop, A.J., Fér, T., Hiên, L.T.T., Hlavatá, K., Lamxay, V., Richardson, J.E., Steffen, K. & Leong-Škorničková, J. 2018. Convergent morphology in Alpinieae (Zingiberaceae): Recircumscribing Amomum as a monophyletic genus. Taxon 67(1): 6-36. DOI: 10.12705/671.2 Reference page.
Liao, J-p.; Wu, Q-g. 2000. A preliminary study of the seed anatomy of Zingiberaceae. Botanical journal of the Linnean Society, 134: 287–300. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2000.tb02355.x
Kress, J.W., Prince, L.M. & Williams, K.J. 2002. The phylogeny and a new classification of the gingers (Zingiberaceae): evidence from molecular data. American Journal of Botany 89(10): 1682–1696. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.89.10.1682 Reference page.
Leong-Škorničková, J., Šída, O., Záveská, E. & Marhold, K. 2015. History of infrageneric classification, typification of supraspecific names and outstanding transfers in Curcuma (Zingiberaceae). Taxon 64(2): 362-373. DOI: 10.12705/642.11 ResearchGate Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Zingiberaceae in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Aug 12. Reference page.

Poulsen, A.D., Båserud Mathisen, H., Newman, M.F., Ardiyani, M., Lofthusi, Ø. & Sletten Bjoråi, C. 2018. Sulettaria: A new ginger genus disjunct from Elettaria cardamomum. Taxon 67(4): 725-738. DOI: 10.12705/674.3 Reference page.

Schumann, K.M. 1904. Zingiberaceae. In Engler, A. (ed.) Das Pflanzenreich. IV. 46 (Heft 20). 458 pp. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names

беларуская: Імбірныя
English: Ginger and Cardamon family
eesti: Ingverilised
suomi: Inkiväärikasvit
magyar: Gyömbérfélék
македонски: Ѓумбири
ไทย: วงศ์ขิง
中文: 姜科

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