Zingiberales

Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, galangal and myoga of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family, and bananas and plantains of the Musaceae or banana family, along with arrowroot of the Marantaceae or arrowroot family.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognises this order and assigns it to the clade commelinids, in the monocots. It is circumscribed as:

• order Zingiberales

  family Cannaceae

  family Costaceae

  family Heliconiaceae

  family Lowiaceae

  family Marantaceae

  family Musaceae

  family Strelitziaceae

  family Zingiberaceae

The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised this order consisting of the same eight families, but organized the order in the subclass Zingiberidae of the class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons].

Earlier systems, such as the Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, and the Engler system, updated in 1964, recognised a similar order (containing the same plants, although divided over fewer families) under the name Scitamineae.

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