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, Asia, and the Americas. Many of the family's species are important ornamental, spice, or medicinal plants. Ornamental genera include the shell gingers (Alpinia), Siam or summer tulip, Globba, ginger lily (Hedychium), Kaempferia, torch-ginger Etlingera elatior, Renealmia, and ginger (Zingiber). Spices include ginger (Zingiber), galangal or Thai ginger, melegueta pepper, myoga, korarima, turmeric (Curcuma), and cardamom.
Boesenbergia rotunda, commonly known as Chinese keys, fingerroot, lesser galangal or Chinese ginger, is a medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia. In English, the root has traditionally been called fingerroot, because the shape of the rhizome resembles that of fingers growing out of a center piece.
Cymbopogon, also known as lemongrass, barbed wire grass, silky heads, oily heads, Cochin grass, Malabar grass, citronella grass or fever grass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family. Some species are commonly cultivated as culinary and medicinal herbs because of their scent, resembling that of lemons . The name cymbopogon derives from the Greek words kymbe and pogon "which mean [that] in most species, the hairy spikelets project from boat-shaped spathes." Lemongrass and its oil are believed to possess therapeutic properties.
Alpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropical and subtropical climates. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants.
Curcuma is a genus of plants in the family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam tulip. They are native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea and northern Australia. Some species are reportedly naturalized in other warm parts of the world such as tropical Africa, Central America, Florida, and various islands of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Generally, most curcuma grows well in loose and sandy soil in shaded areas.
Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790. Two species are found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. All the other species are found in East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, and certain islands of the western Pacific. The genus has about 150 species of dioecious trees or shrubs.
Arisaema is a large and diverse genus of the flowering plant family Araceae. The largest concentration of species is in China and Japan, with other species native to other parts of southern Asia as well as eastern and central Africa, Mexico and eastern North America. Asiatic species are often called cobra lilies, while western species are often called jack-in-the-pulpit; both names refer to the distinctive appearance of the flower, which consists of an erect central spadix rising from a spathe.
Typhonium is a genus in the family Araceae native to eastern and southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. It is most often found growing in wooded areas.
- Typhonium acetosellaGagnep. - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Typhonium adnatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium albidinerviumC.Z.Tang & H.Li - Guangdong, Hainan, Laos, Thailand
- Typhonium albispathumBogner - Thailand
- Typhonium alismifoliumF.Muell. - Queensland, Northern Territory
- Typhonium angustilobumF.Muell. - Queensland, New Guinea
- Typhonium bachmaenseV.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
- Typhonium baoshanenseZ.L.Dao & H.Li - Yunnan
- Typhonium blumeiNicolson & Sivad. - Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, much of China, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; naturalized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Borneo, Philippines, West Indies
- Typhonium bognerianumJ.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium browniiSchott - Queensland, New South Wales
- Typhonium bulbiferumDalzell - southern India
- Typhonium circinnatumHett. & J.Mood - Vietnam
- Typhonium cochleareA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium cordifoliumS.Y.Hu - Thailand
- Typhonium digitatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium echinulatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium eliosurum(F.Muell. ex Benth.) O.D.Evans - New South Wales
- Typhonium filiformeRidl. - Thailand, Malaysia
- Typhonium flagelliforme(G.Lodd.) Blume - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory
- Typhonium fultumRidl. - Thailand, Malaysia
- Typhonium gagnepainiiJ.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand, Cambodia
- Typhonium gallowayiHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium glaucumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium griseumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium hayataeSriboonma & J.Murata - Vietnam
- Typhonium huenseNguyen & Croat - Vietnam
- Typhonium hunanenseH.Li & Z.Q.Liu - Hunan
- Typhonium inopinatumPrain - India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Typhonium jinpingenseZ.L.Wang, H.Li & F.H.Bian - Yunnan
- Typhonium johnsonianumA.Hay & S.M.Taylor - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium jonesiiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium laoticumGagnep. - Thailand, Laos
- Typhonium liliifoliumF.Muell. ex Schott - Northern Territory, Western Australia
- Typhonium lineareHett. & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Typhonium listeriPrain - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Typhonium medusaeHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium mirabile(A.Hay) A.Hay - Melville Island of Australia
- Typhonium neogracileJ.Murata - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Typhonium nudibaccatumA.Hay - Western Australia
- Typhonium orbifoliumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium pedatisectumGage - Myanmar
- Typhonium pedunculatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium peltandroidesA.Hay, M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett - Western Australia
- Typhonium penicillatumV.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
- Typhonium pottingeriPrain - Myanmar
- Typhonium praecoxJ.Murata - Myanmar
- Typhonium praetermissumA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium pusillumSookch., V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Thailand
- Typhonium reflexumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium roxburghiiSchott - Taiwan, Yunnan, Bonin Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, western Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea; naturalized in Western Australia, eastern Brazil, Tanzania
- Typhonium russell-smithiiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium sagittariifoliumGagnep. - Thailand
- Typhonium saraburiensisSookch., Hett. & J.Murata - Thailand
- Typhonium sinhabaedyaeHett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
- Typhonium smitinandiiSookch. & J.Murata - Thailand
- Typhonium stigmatilobatumV.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Typhonium subglobosumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium tayloriiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium trifoliatumF.T.Wang & H.S.Lo ex H.Li, Y.Shiao & S.L.Tseng - Mongolia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi
- Typhonium trilobatum(L.) Schott - southern China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina; naturalized in Windward Islands, Ivory Coast, Borneo, Philippines
- Typhonium tubispathumHett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
- Typhonium variansHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium vermiformeV.D.Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam
- Typhonium violifoliumGagnep. - Myanmar, Thailand
- Typhonium watanabeiJ.Murata, Sookch. & Hett. - Thailand
- Typhonium weipanumA.Hay - Queensland
- Typhonium wilbertiiA.Hay - Queensland
Kaempferia galanga, commonly known as kencur, aromatic ginger, sand ginger, cutcherry, is a monocotyledonous plant in the ginger family, and one of four plants called galangal. It is found primarily in open areas in Indonesia, southern China, Taiwan, Cambodia, and India, but is also widely cultivated throughout Southeast Asia.
Premna is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- Premna acuminataR.Br. - Australia, New Guinea
- Premna acutataW.W.Sm. - southwestern China
- Premna albaH.J.Lam - Palau
- Premna ambongensisMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna amplectensWall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar
- Premna angolensisGürke - tropical Africa
- Premna angustifloraH.J.Lam - Palau
- Premna annulataH.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
- Premna aureolepidotaMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna balakrishnaniiA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
- Premna balansaeDop - Vietnam
- Premna barbataWall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
- Premna bengalensisC.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Premna bequaertiiMoldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre
- Premna bracteataWall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar
- Premna cambodianaDop - Cambodia, Vietnam
- Premna cavalerieiH.Lév - China
- Premna chevalieriDop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China
- Premna chrysoclada(Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau
- Premna collinsaeCraib - Thailand
- Premna confinisC.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China
- Premna congolensisMoldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda
- Premna cordifoliaRoxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya
- Premna coriaceaC.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands
- Premna corymbosaRottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
- Premna crassaHand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China
- Premna debianaA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh
- Premna decaryiMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna decurrensH.J.Lam - Indonesia
- Premna discolorVerdc. - Kenya
- Premna dubiaCraib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Premna esculentaRoxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
- Premna fohaiensisC.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna fordiiDunn - China
- Premna fulvaCraib - Indochina, Indonesia, China
- Premna garrettiiH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna glaberrimaWight - southern India
- Premna glandulosaHand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan)
- Premna gracillimaVerdc. - Kenya, Tanzania
- Premna grandifoliaA.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = Premna hutchinsonii
- Premna grossaWall. ex Schauer - Myanmar
- Premna guillauminiiMoldenke - New Caledonia
- Premna hainanensisChun & F.C.How - China (Hainan)
- Premna hans-joachimiiVerdc. - Tanzania
- Premna henryana(Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China
- Premna herbaceaRoxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia
- Premna hildebrandtiiGürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
- Premna hispidaBenth. - West Africa
- Premna humbertiiMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna hutchinsoniiMoldenke - Ivory Coast
- Premna interruptaWall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina
- Premna jalpaigurianaT.K.Paul - West Bengal
- Premna khasianaC.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand
- Premna lepidellaMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna ligustroidesHemsl - China
- Premna longiacuminataMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna longifoliaRoxb. - Himalayas
- Premna longipetiolataMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna lucensA.Chev. - West Africa
- Premna macrophyllaWall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina
- Premna madagascariensisMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna mariannarumSchauer - Mariana Islands
- Premna matadiensisMoldenke - Zaïre, Angola
- Premna maximaT.C.E. Fr. - Kenya
- Premna mekongensisW.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan)
- Premna micranthaSchauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh
- Premna microphyllaTurcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China
- Premna millefloraC.B.Clarke - Assam
- Premna milneiBaker - Nigeria, Bioko
- Premna minorDomin - Queensland
- Premna mollissimaRoth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, Philippines
- Premna mooiensis(H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
- Premna mortehaniiDe Wild - Zaïre
- Premna mundanthuraiensisA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
- Premna neurophyllaChiov. - Ethiopia
- Premna oblongataMiq. - Indonesia, Philippines
- Premna odorataBlanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in Florida
- Premna oliganthaC.Y.Wu - China
- Premna oligotrichaBaker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
- Premna orangeanaCapuron - Madagascar
- Premna paisehensisC.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi)
- Premna pallescensRidl.- Borneo, Indonesia
- Premna parasiticaBlume - Indonesia
- Premna parvilimbaC.Pei - China (Yunnan)
- Premna paucinervis(C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
- Premna paulobarbataH.J.Lam - Mariana Islands
- Premna perplexansMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna perrieriMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna pinguisC.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java
- Premna politaHiern - Angola
- Premna procumbensMoon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Premna protrusaA.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji
- Premna puberulaPamp. - China
- Premna pubescensBlume - Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island
- Premna puerensisY.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan)
- Premna punduanaWall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
- Premna puniceaC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna purpurascensThwaites - Sri Lanka
- Premna quadrifoliaSchumach. & Thonn. - West Africa
- Premna rabakensisMoldenke - Cambodia
- Premna regularisH.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea
- Premna repensH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna resinosa(Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India
- Premna richardsiaeMoldenke - Tanzania
- Premna rubroglandulosaC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna scandensRoxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina
- Premna schimperiEngl - East Africa
- Premna schliebeniiWerderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Premna scoriarumW.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar
- Premna senensisKlotzsch - eastern + central Africa
- Premna serrataH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna serratifoliaL. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
- Premna siamensisH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna stenobotrysMerr. - Vietnam
- Premna steppicolaHand.-Mazz. - China
- †Premna sterculiifoliaKing & Gamble - Malaya but extinct
- Premna straminicaulisC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna subcapitataRehder - China
- Premna sulphurea(Baker) Gürke - Angola
- Premna sunyiensisC.Pei - China (Guangdong)
- Premna szemaoensisPei - China (Yunnan)
- Premna tahitensisJ.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific
- Premna tanganyikensisMoldenke - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Premna tapintzeanaDop - China (Yunnan)
- Premna teniiC.Pei - China (Yunnan)
- Premna thoreliiDop - Laos
- Premna thwaitesiiC.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka
- Premna tomentosaWilld. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands
- Premna trichostomaMiq. - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea
- Premna urticifoliaRehder - China (Yunnan)
- Premna velutinaGürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
- Premna venulosaMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna wightianaSchauer - India, Sri Lanka
- Premna wuiBoufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan)
- Premna yunnanensisW.W.Sm - China
Steudnera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is native to southern China, the Himalayas, and Indochina. The genus was first described by Karl Koch in 1862. The genus is also believed to be closely related to Remusatia.
- Steudnera assamicaHook.f. - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
- Steudnera capitellataHook.f. - Myanmar
- Steudnera colocasiifoliaK.Koch - Yunnan, Guangxi, Assam, Bangladesh, Indochina
- Steudnera discolorW.Bull - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
- Steudnera gageiK.Krause - Assam
- Steudnera griffithii(Schott) Hook.f. - Assam, Myanmar, Yunnan
- Steudnera henryanaEngl. - Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam
- Steudnera kerriiGagnep. - Guangxi, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
Pholidota, commonly known as rattlesnake orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are clump-forming epiphytes or lithophytes with pseudobulbs, each with a single large leaf and a large number of small, whitish flowers arranged in two ranks along a thin, wiry flowering stem that emerges from the top of the pseudobulb. There are about thirty five species native to areas from tropical and subtropical Asia to the southwestern Pacific.
Thespis is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.
Kaempferia rotunda is a flowering plant species in the ginger family. It is native to China, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, and widely cultivated elsewhere. It is reportedly naturalized in Java, Malaysia and Costa Rica.
Tupistra is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants found in south Asia, from southern China to Sumatra and Ambon Island. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae.
Boesenbergia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains more than 90 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.
Globba is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains about 100 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Queensland.
Anisochilus is a genus in the family Lamiaceae, commonly called as Kapuri first described in 1830. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Indochina. Has healing properties that deal with treatment for ailments known as gastric ulcer and helps with dermis issues. Anisochilus also has active properties such as camphor, leutiolin, and apigenin. A new hygrine-like compound has been found within the DNA of this plant.
Gomphostemma is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1830. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, and the Indian subcontinent.
- Gomphostemma aborensisDunn - Arunachal Pradesh
- Gomphostemma arbusculumC.Y.Wu - Yunnan
- Gomphostemma callicarpoides(Yamam.) Masam. - Taiwan
- Gomphostemma chinenseOliv. - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Vietnam
- Gomphostemma crinitumWall. ex Benth. - Indochina, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh
- Gomphostemma curtisiiPrain - Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo
- Gomphostemma deltodonC.Y.Wu - Yunnan
- Gomphostemma dolichobotrysMerr. - Sumatra
- Gomphostemma eriocarpumBenth. - southern India
- Gomphostemma grandiflorumDoan ex Suddee & A.J.Paton - Vietnam
- Gomphostemma hainanenseC.Y.Wu - Hainan
- Gomphostemma hemsleyanumPrain ex Collett & Hemsl. - Java, Myanmar
- Gomphostemma heyneanumWall. ex Benth. - southern India
- Gomphostemma hirsutumWalsingham - Sabah
- Gomphostemma inopinatumPrain - Myanmar
- Gomphostemma javanicum(Blume) Benth. - Indochina, Andaman Islands, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Philippines
- Gomphostemma keralensisVivek., Gopalan & R.Ansari. - Kerala
- Gomphostemma laceiMukerjee - Myanmar
- Gomphostemma latifoliumC.Y.Wu - Yunnan, Guangdong
- Gomphostemma leptodonDunn - Guangxi, Vietnam
- Gomphostemma lucidumWall. ex Benth. - Indochina, Assam, Bangladesh, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
- Gomphostemma mastersiiBenth. ex Hook.f. - Assam, Bangladesh, Thailand
- Gomphostemma melissifoliumWall. ex Benth. - Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
- Gomphostemma microcalyxPrain - Borneo, Malaya, Sumatra
- Gomphostemma microdonDunn - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Gomphostemma nayariiA.S.Chauhan - Assam
- Gomphostemma niveumHook.f. - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Vietnam
- Gomphostemma nutansHook.f. - Assam, Myanmar
- Gomphostemma ovatumWall. ex Benth. - Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
- Gomphostemma parviflorumWall. ex Benth. - Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Yunnan, Indochina, Borneo, Java, Sumatra
- Gomphostemma pedunculatumBenth. ex Hook.f. - Assam, Yunnan, Vietnam
- Gomphostemma pseudocrinitumC.Y.Wu - Guangxi
- Gomphostemma salarkhanianumKhanam & M.A.Hassan - Sylhet District in Bangladesh
- Gomphostemma scortechiniiPrain - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya
- Gomphostemma stellatohirsutumC.Y.Wu - Yunnan
- Gomphostemma strobilinum Wall. ex Benth. - Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Gomphostemma sulcatumC.Y.Wu - Yunnan
- Gomphostemma thomsoniiBenth. ex Hook.f. - Assam
- Gomphostemma velutinumBenth. - Assam, Bangladesh
- Gomphostemma wallichiiPrain - Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
Sphenodesme is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1820. The genus is native to southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China and Malesia.