Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae

Zingiberaceae /ˌzɪndʒɪbəˈreɪsiː/, or the ginger family, are a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising about52 genera and more than 1300 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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