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Zingiberales
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Zingiberales is a botanical name for a order of flowering plants. Such an order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, myoga, and also banana and arrowroot.
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognises this order and assigns it to the clade commelinids, in the monocots. It is circumscribed as:
- order Zingiberales
- family Cannaceae
- family Costaceae
- family Heliconiaceae
- family Lowiaceae
- family Marantaceae
- family Musaceae
- family Strelitziaceae
- family Zingiberaceae
The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised such an order, which actually consisted of the same eight families, but it placed the order in the subclass Zingiberidae, which in its turn is placed in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons].
Earlier systems, such as the Wettstein system, last revision in 1935, and the Engler system, update of 1964, recognised a similar order (containing the same plants, although divided over less families) under the name Scitamineae.
