page_title: Zingiberaceae
section_title: Subdivisions
hierarchical_section_title: Zingiberaceae / Taxonomy / Subdivisions
context_page_description: Zingiberaceae 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.
  Many of the family's species are important ornamental, spice, or medicinal plants. Ornamental genera include the shell gingers, Siam or summer tulip, Globba, ginger lily, Kaempferia, torch-ginger Etlingera elatior, Renealmia, and ginger. Spices include ginger, galangal or Thai ginger, melegueta pepper, myoga, korarima, turmeric, and cardamom.
context_section_description: Subfamily Siphonochiloideae
  Tribe Siphonochileae
  Siphonochilus
  Subfamily Tamijioideae
  Tribe Tamijieae
  Tamijia
  Subfamily Alpinioideae
  Siliquamomum (incertae sedis)
  Tribe Alpinieae
  Aframomum - grains of paradise
  Alpinia - galangal
  Amomum
  Aulotandra
  Cyphostigma
  Elettaria - cardamom
  Elettariopsis
  Etlingera
  Geocharis
  Geostachys
  Hornstedtia
  Leptosolena
  Plagiostachys
  Renealmia
  Vanoverberghia
  ×Alpingera F. Luc-Cayol (Alpinia × Etlingera) - intergeneric hybrid
  Tribe Riedelieae
  Burbidgea
  Pleuranthodium
  Riedelia
  Siamanthus
  Subfamily Zingiberoideae
  Caulokaempferia (incertae sedis)
  Tribe Zingibereae
  Boesenbergia
  Camptandra
  Cautleya
  Cornukaempferia
  Curcuma - turmeric
  Curcumorpha
  Distichochlamys
  Haniffia
  Haplochorema
  Hedychium
  Hitchenia
  Kaempferia
  Kedhalia
  Laosanthus
  Myxochlamys
  Nanochilus
  Newmania
  Paracautleya
  Parakaempferia
  Pommereschea
  Pyrgophyllum
  Rhynchanthus
  Roscoea
  Scaphochlamys
  Smithatris
  Stadiochilus
  Stahlianthus
  Zingiber - ginger
  Tribe Globbeae
  Gagnepainia
  Globba
  Hemiorchis
caption: Zingiber spectabile cultivar Beehive
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