Abstract
About 50 genera and 1300 species: pantropical with center of diversity in S and SE Asia, some species in America and subtropical and warm- temperate Asia; 20 genera (one endemic) and 216 species (141 endemic, four introduced) in China. Zingiberaceae subfam. Costoideae and subfam. Zingiberoideae, as treated in FRPS, are treated here as Costaceae and Zingiberaceae, respec- tively. Many new taxa of Zingiberaceae have been described from China since 1981. These are often little known and their relationships are not yet fully understood. Therefore, a taxonomic sequence of species, as given in FRPS, has been considered impractical in this account; instead, taxa are arranged in the sequence in which they appear in the keys. Some members of the Zingiberaceae yield dyes, spices, perfumes, and medicines. Various species are cultivated for their showy flowers.
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Xu, Z., & Chang, L. (2017). Zingiberaceae. In Identification and Control of Common Weeds: Volume 3 (pp. 909–911). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5403-7_38
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