Zingiberaceae

Family of plants

Zingiberaceae, the ginger family, is a family of flowering plants containing 59 genera and about 1600 described species distributed globally in the tropics and subtropics. They are aromatic perennial herbs with creeping rhizomes, sometimes tuberous. Basal leaf sheathing forms a pseudostem taller than their true stems which emerge unbranched.

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