🌿 Family

Zingiberaceae

27 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Zingiberales › Zingiberaceae

Kaempferia rotunda is a ginger-family flowering plant with medicinal uses, rarely found wild and widely cultivated.

Roscoea purpurea Sm. is a perennial Himalayan herb grown in gardens, pollinated by a specific long-tongued fly.

Siphonochilus aethiopicus is a critically endangered deciduous flowering ginger from Africa, widely used for medicinal purposes.

Related Families

Marantaceae 23 species Heliconiaceae 18 species Costaceae 13 species Musaceae 12 species Strelitziaceae 6 species Cannaceae 3 species

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