Costaceae, known as the Costus family or spiral gingers, is a family of pantropical monocots. It belongs to the order Zingiberales, which contains ...
Spiral ginger family
Plant
Costaceae, known as the Costus family or spiral gingers, is a family of pantropical monocots. It belongs to the order Zingiberales, which contains horticulturally and economically important plants such as the banana, bird-of-paradise, and edible... Wikipedia
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Costaceae, or the Costus family, is a family of pantropical monocots. It belongs to the order Zingiberales, which contains horticulturally and economically ...
Family: From Mexico in the North to S Brazil and N Paraguay in the South, also present in the West Indian Islands. Genera: Chamaecostus C.D.Specht & D.W.Stev. - ...
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Costaceae is a perennial herb commonly found in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and Americas.
Mar 22, 2023 · The Neotropical members of the family Costaceae (Zingiberales) comprise two separate evolutionary lineages of species included in genera Costus, ...
The phylogeny made one thing perfectly clear: the classification of Costaceae was seriously outdated. Today biologists try to classify organisms according ...
Four genera and ca. 120 species: pantropical with center of diversity in America; one genus and five species (two endemic) in China.
Species of Amazonian Costaceae (Costus, Dimerocostus and Monocostus) are usually referred to as spiral gingers due to the arrangement of their leaves.
Helpdesk · Kingdom. Plantae · Phylum. Tracheophyta · Class. Liliopsida · Order. Zingiberales. Family.