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Ginger-families


The ginger-families or ginger group or Core Zingiberales is a terminal clade in the order Zingiberales (:Monocotyledoneae) that comprises Zingiberaceae (the ginger family), Costaceae, Marantaceae and Cannaceae. Their shared synapomorphy of a single fertile anther and four or five highly modified staminodia differentiate them from the basal paraphyletic assemblage of the "banana-families".


Zingiberineae

Heliconiaceae

Strelitziineae

Musaceae

They form a Suborder Zingiberineae Kress in taxonomic classification, with the following phylogeny, the four families being grouped into two superfamilies.

Zingiberaceae

Costaceae

Cannaceae

Marantaceae



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