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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Zingiberaceae

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Zingiberaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Zingiberaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 52 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,348 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Zingiberaceae. Of these 1,587 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 269 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 3,348 species names for the family Zingiberaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,587	47.4%
◕	Synonym	1,658	49.5%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	101	3.0%

All names

The status of the 3,617 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Zingiberaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,611	44.5%
◕	Synonym	1,903	52.6%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	101	2.8%

Of the species names,

46 are recorded as invalid
101 are recorded as illegitimate
2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 3,348 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Zingiberaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	1,583	1,617	0	0	3,200	95.6%
Medium confidence	3	29	0	0	32	1.0%
Low confidence	1	12	2	101	116	3.5%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Zingiberaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	3	30	0	29	0	62	1.9%
WCSP	1,584	1,628	0	60	1	3,272	97.7%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	2	12	0	14	0.4%