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Gingers
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Gingers

Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae (/ˌzɪndʒɪbəˈreɪsiː/) or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Alpinioideae

subfamilyAlpinioideae

Zingiberoideae

subfamilyZingiberoideae

Siphonochiloideae

subfamilySiphonochiloideae

Tamijioideae

subfamilyTamijioideae

Perakalia

genusPerakalia

Johoralia

genusJohoralia

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Gingers in The Ambonese Herbal, Vol. 4

The Ambonese Herbal, Vol. 4

Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1743 · p.207

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52496.