Zingiberaceae

The family Zingiberaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Genera in Zingiberaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Zingiberaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Zingiberaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 50 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,292 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Zingiberaceae. Of these 1,548 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 237 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Zingiberaceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 3,292 species names for the family Zingiberaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,548	47.0%
◕	Synonym	1,658	50.4%
◕	Unplaced	49	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	37	1.1%

All names

The status of the 3,529 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Zingiberaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,594	45.2%
◕	Synonym	1,849	52.4%
◕	Unplaced	49	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	37	1.0%

Of these names,

35 are recorded as invalid
96 are recorded as illegitimate
3 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 3,292 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Zingiberaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	1,543	1,607	0	0	3,150	95.7%
Medium confidence	4	38	0	0	42	1.3%
Low confidence	1	13	49	37	100	3.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Zingiberaceae, are as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	4	38	0	29	71	2.2%
WCSP	1,544	1,620	49	0	3,213	97.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	0	8	8	0.2%