The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Zingiberaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Zingiberaceae

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,

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 Misapplied Total
Tropicos 4 38 0 29 0 71 2.2%
WCSP 1,544 1,620 49 0 0 3,213 97.6%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 8 0 8 0.2%