Zingiberaceae

Genera 60 Accepted species 1,890 Documented here 89 Coverage 5%

We document 89 of the 1,890 accepted species in Zingiberaceae. The rest are listed, with their authorities and their identifiers, inside their genus. They have no page of their own because we could not find three openly licensed photographs of them, and a page without evidence is not a page we are willing to publish.

Genera we document 20 of 60

GenusDocumentedAccepted species
Alpinia 21 171
Curcuma 15 151
Renealmia 9 77
Hedychium 7 103
Zingiber 7 203
Globba 6 141
Etlingera 5 148
Kaempferia 5 49
Hornstedtia 2 38
Siphonochilus 2 11
Aframomum 1 62
Amomum 1 120
Boesenbergia 1 89
Cautleya 1 2
Elettaria 1 7
Gagnepainia 1 2
Hellwigia 1 76
Larsenianthus 1 4
Pleuranthodium 1 24
Roscoea 1 26

Genera we do not yet document 40 genera

Real genera, accepted by World Flora Online, for which we have not yet found three commercially licensed photographs of any species. They are listed rather than hidden.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Family circumscription, accepted names, authorities. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.