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| | Zingiberales |
 | | Mostly tropical America, a few Celebes to the Pacific (Map: Old World from Kress 1990a; New World, J. Kress, pers. |
 | | Heliconiaceae are large herbs with 2-ranked leaves and inflorescences with large, colored bracts in the axils of which are fascicles of flowers with petaloid tepals; the drupaceous fruit is borne on a stout, elongated pedicel and has a single hard stone per loculus. |
 | | Rudall and Bateman (2004) note that flowers in which the abaxial stamen of the outer whorl is sterile is a feature of Heliconiaceae plus the Marantaceae-Zingiberaceae clade, however, Heliconiaceae are sister to all other Zingiberales in Janssen and Bremer (2004). |
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