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A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales
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zingiberaceae
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Zingiberaceae or the '''ginger family '''is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, ...
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Here too, the taxonomy gets tricky because some of the Zingiberaceae have been classified by their rhizomes as well as their seed pods.
All of the other Zingiberaceae, including dried ginger, turmeric, galangal, and cardamom, are important only as medicine.