Zingiberales

Zingiberales is an order of mostly tropical monocotyledonous flowering plants, including bananas, gingers, bird-of-paradise plants, and heliconias. Its members often have large leaves and flowers with specialized, sometimes highly reduced, reproductive parts.

Monocotyledon: A flowering plant whose embryo typically has one seed leaf and whose leaves often have parallel veins. Zingiberales belongs to this major flowering-plant lineage.
Zingiberales flower: A flower of a Zingiberales plant, often with reduced fertile stamens and conspicuous petal-like structures. Its modified floral parts distinguish the order from many other monocots.
Banana: An edible fruit produced by large herbaceous plants, especially cultivars of Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Bananas are among the order’s most widely cultivated food plants.
Angiosperm: A flowering plant whose seeds develop within an ovary that typically becomes a fruit. Zingiberales is a lineage within the flowering plants.
Commelinids: A major monocot clade that includes grasses, palms, and several orders of tropical plants. Zingiberales is one of the commelinid orders.
Staminode: A sterile or reduced stamen that no longer produces functional pollen. In many Zingiberales, staminodes form conspicuous floral displays or guide pollinators.
Ginger: A pungent rhizome used as a spice and traditional medicine, produced by Zingiber officinale. It is the namesake crop of the ginger family within Zingiberales.
Monocot evolution: The evolutionary history and diversification of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The order’s ancestry and traits are understood within the broader history of monocots.
Zingiberaceae: The ginger family, a plant family of aromatic herbs that includes ginger, turmeric, and cardamom. It is one of the order’s largest and most familiar families.
Bract: A modified leaf associated with a flower or inflorescence. Showy bracts surround or support flowers in several Zingiberales families.

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