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Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising 47 genera and about 1000 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia and the Americas.
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