gingers, bananas, and allies
Zingiberales
The Zingiberales are flowering plants forming one of four orders in the commelinids clade of monocots, together with its sister order, Commelinales. The order includes 68 genera and 2,600 species. Zingiberales are a unique though morphologically diverse order that has been widely recognised as such over a long period of time. Usually large herbaceous plants with rhizomatous root systems and lacking an aerial stem except when flowering. Flowers are usually large and showy, and the stamens...
8 branches of this order, most-observed first
Gingers
familyZingiberaceae
Lobster-claws
familyHeliconiaceae
Canna Lilies
familyCannaceae
Banana Family
familyMusaceae
Arrowroots
familyMarantaceae
bird-of-paradise plants
familyStrelitziaceae
Spiral Gingers and Allies
familyCostaceae
Lowiaceae
familyLowiaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 48318.