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	Zingiberales
		Stem-group Zingiberales are dated to ca 114 million years before present, divergence within the group to ca 88 million years before present (Janssen and Bremer 2004); comparable figures are 84 and 62 million years before present in Bremer (2000b) and 81-73 and 62-38 million years before present in Wikström et al.
		Zingiberales are giant herbs with often rather complex monosymmetric flowers that are largely restricted to the tropics.
		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.
	www.mobot.org /MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/zingiberalesweb.htm (3531 words)

	McGraw-Hill AccessScience: Zingiberales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zingiberales (also known as Scitamineae or Scitaminales) are morphologically well defined and clearly circumscribed in DNA sequence analyses.
		Zingiberales are most closely related to Commelinales, and the enigmatic Hanguana from southeast Asia is difficult to place with certainty in either order.
		Zingiberales are herbs or scarcely branched trees or shrubs with pinnately veined leaves and irregular flowers that have well-differentiated sepals and petals, an inferior ovary, septal or septa-derived nectaries, and usually either one or five functional stamens.
	www.accessscience.com /Encyclopedia/7/75/Est_755400_frameset.html?doi (232 words)

	Key to Families of Zingiberales, Botany, Smithsonian Institution
		Key to Families of Zingiberales, Botany, Smithsonian Institution
		Natural History > Department of Botany > Research > Zingiberales > Key to Families
		Ovary with extensive prolongation to form a solid tube; all petals not fused; median stamen of outer whorl fertile; median stamen of inner whorl absent
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/zingiber/key.html (304 words)

	Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the families of the Zingiberales using morphological, molecular, and fossil ...
		Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the families of the Zingiberales using morphological, molecular, and fossil evidence
		Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the families of the Zingiberales using morphological, molecular, and fossil evidence
		"Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the families of the Zingiberales using morphological, molecular, and fossil evidence." Systematic Biology 50 (2001): 926-944.
	explore.georgetown.edu /publications/index.cfm?Action=View&DocumentID=13338 (62 words)

	Prince, Linda M. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Zingiberales are a distinctive yet diverse order of broad-leaved monocots including bananas, heliconias, and gingers, with ~2000 species divided into 92 genera.
		The order and its two largest families (Marantaceae and Zingiberaceae) have molecular phylogenies available allowing the distribution of this intron to be mapped, and hypotheses regarding evolutionary history tested.
		Not all taxa hypothesized to have lost the intron retain an intron "footprint" in the co-conversion tract suggesting that this footprint is rapidly lost and not a reliable indicator of historic intron presence.
	www.botany2002.org /section12/abstracts/195.shtml (285 words)

	HSI Conference 2004
		The Zingiberales are a group of entirely tropical monocots that includes eight families, 92 genera, and about 2,000 species.
		The phylogenetic diversification and biogeographic dispersal of the Zingiberales was in part driven by the evolutionary radiation and diversification of their associated animal pollinators, which include bats, birds, non-flying mammals, and insects.
		Six of the eight families of the Zingiberales contain taxa specialized for pollination by vertebrates, which may be the primitive state in the order, and two families are exclusively vertebrate-pollinated.
	hsi2004.tropicalflowerfarm.com /Kress.html (833 words)

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		This family forms an easily recognizable clade within the Zingiberales, distinguished from other families in the order by its characteristic one-sided spiral phyllotaxy and its floral design, featuring 5 infertile stamens fused to form a petaloid labellum.
		Specht, C.D. and Stevenson, D.W. 2006 “A revised taxonomy for Costaceae (Zingiberales).” Taxon 51(1): 153-163.
		Specht, C.D., Kress, W.J., Stevenson, D.W., and DeSalle, R. “A Molecular Phylogeny of Costaceae (Zingiberales).” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(3):333-345.
	epmb.berkeley.edu:8080 /facPage/dispFP.php?I=545 (838 words)

	PBIO 450 Lecture Notes - Zingideridae -- Spring 1999
		The disposition of families into the Zingiberales by the various modern authors is not significantly different.
		The order differs from the Zingiberales by having six functional stamens in the actinomorphic to slightly zygomorphic flowers on xerophytic and typically epiphytic plants with narrow, often firm and spiny-margined leaves in which the blade is continuous with the sheath.
		The Zingiberales may be characterized as those members of the subclass with one or five (rarely six) functional stamens in strongly zygomorphic flowers on mesophytic or even emergent aquatic plants found mainly on the forest floor with leaves well differentiated into a blade, petiole and leaf base.
	www.life.umd.edu /emeritus/Reveal/PBIO/pb450/zing.html (856 words)

	MEDLINE Search on Medscape.com
		Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the families of the Zingiberales using morphological and molecular evidence.
		The Zingiberales are a tropical group of monocotyledons that includes bananas, gingers, and their relatives.
		Developmental anatomy and morphology of the ovule and seed of heliconia (heliconiaceae, zingiberales).
	search.medscape.com /medline-search?queryText=Zingiberales (288 words)

	Research in the Specht Lab
		Research with the “spiral gingers” involves utilizing a phylogenetic framework to investigate molecular evolution, floral development, and the historical biogeography of the pan-tropical family Costaceae.
		Due to the natural diversity of floral forms, the Zingiberales provide an ideal model system to test the role of candidate floral development genes in the formation of diverse morphologies found in these plants.
		We are looking at the role of identified genes important in floral development of Arabidopsis in the development of novel floral structures (such as the labellum) within Zingiberales.
	pmb.berkeley.edu /~specht/research.html (903 words)

	Zingiberales Terms and Definitions at www.MedicalGlossary.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Costus - A plant genus of the family Costaceae (sometimes classified in Zingiberaceae), order Zingiberales, subclass Zingiberidae, class Liliopsida (monocotyledons).
		The slender false trunk, formed by leaf sheaths of the spirally arranged leaves, may rise to 15 metres (50 feet).
		Zingiberaceae - A plant family of the order Zingiberales, subclass Zingiberidae, class Liliopsida.
	www.medicalglossary.org /angiosperms_zingiberales_definitions.html (347 words)

	Natural History Highlight - National Museum of Natural History
		Thus, by discovering fossilized feeding activity, the researchers were able to determine that the hispine beetles in general and rolled-leaf beetles in particular were in existence 20 million years earlier than previously thought.
		Since gingers are tropical plants, he and Wilf consulted hispine beetle specialist Donald Windsor from the STRI and Zingiberales expert W. John Kress of the NMNH's Department of Botany, as well as other colleagues.
		Hispine specialist Charles Staines, of the NMNH's Department of Entomology, confirmed this diagnosis, and a survey of the NMNH's National Herbarium by Ashley Allen, a volunteer in the Department of Paleobiology, turned up numerous examples of hispine damage on modern Zingiberales that were similar to the fossil specimens.
	www.mnh.si.edu /highlight/paleo_plant/index.html (1547 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Differential Attraction to Plant Chemical Volatiles by Rolled Leaf Beetles (Hispinae, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The four beetle species tested for attraction to different Zingiberales families displayed different capabilities of detecting volatile chemicals from their host or from other Zingiberales.
		In choice experiments, when volatile chemicals from their host or from other Zingiberales were simultaneously offered, attraction to host volatiles varied among species from highly specific to no preference.
		This variation in the response to volatile chemicals from host plants or other closely related Zingiberales makes rolled leaf beetles an ideal group in which to investigate how a community of insect herbivores uses volatile chemicals to search their hosts.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/Publications.htm?seq_no_115=190826&pf=1 (398 words)

	general information of heliconias and other zingiberales
		In the American Tropics, hummingbirds are the exclusive polinators of red, yellow, pink and orange heliconias while nectar feeding bats are the polinators of green heliconias.
		Heliconia is the only genus in the plant family heliconiacea, which is a member of a larger taxonomic category called the order Zingiberales.
		Most taxonomists recognize eight separate families in the zingiberales : Musacea (Bananas),Strelitziacea (Bird of Paradise), Lowiacea, Heliconiacea (Heliconias), Zingiberacea (Gingers), Costacea (Costus), Cannacea (Cannas) and Marantacea (Prayer Plants).
	www.agrotropical.andes.com /generinfo.html (310 words)

	Amazon.com: Zingiberales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anther development, microsporogenesis and microgametogenesis in Heliconia (Heliconiaceae, Zingiberales) [An article from: Flora by D.G. Simao, V.L. Scatena, and F. Bouman (Mar 9, 2007)
		of the families of the Zingiberales using morphological and molecular evidence..Svst.
		are several well-supported subclades: Arecales, Zingiberales, Poales, and Commelinales.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Zingiberales&tag=tabularasa0f&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (971 words)

	A new phylogeny-based generic classification of Costaceae (Zingiberales)
		A new phylogeny-based generic classification of Costaceae (Zingiberales)
		A reevaluation of the traditional taxonomy indicates that floral characters and pollination syndromes commonly used to identify groups exhibit homoplasy when analyzed in a cladistic framework and are thus unreliable as taxonomic indicators.
		Stevenson, "A new phylogeny-based generic classification of Costaceae (Zingiberales)" (2006).
	repositories.cdlib.org /postprints/1516 (241 words)

	Bruce K. Kirchoff - publications
		Ovary structure and anatomy in the Heliconiaceae and Musaceae (Zingiberales).
		Lamina architecture and anatomy in the Heliconiaceae and Musaceae (Zingiberales).
		Floral ontogeny and evolution in the ginger group of the Zingiberales.
	www.colorado.edu /eeb/MORPH/labs/pubs/kirchoff_pubs.html (306 words)

	Current research
		I use as study model a group of beetles from the subfamily Hispinae (Chrysomelidae).
		Hispine larvae and adults are herbivores of plants from the order Zingiberales.
		Some species are specialists feeding on only one host., Other species are generalists, feeding in up to five different species of Zingiberales.
	www.bio.miami.edu /carlos/current.htm (302 words)

	KIRCHOFF, BRUCE K.* AND MICHELLE MIYOKO GIBSON. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Here we apply Hofmeister's Rule to sepal initiation in several families of the Zingiberales.
		The flowers of the Zingiberales occur in cymose partial florescences.
		Sepal initiation in the second and third flowers also follows Hofmeister's Rule.
	www.ou.edu /cas/botany-micro/bsa-abst/section2/abstracts/35.shtml (325 words)

	A new pollination system: dung-beetle pollination discovered in Orchidantha inouei (Lowiaceae, Zingiberales) in ...
		Pollinator groups found in the families and sources of the data are shown.
		Lowiaceae are the only family in the Zingiberales in which pollination
		Kirchoff, B. K.1991Homeosis in the flowers of the Zingiberales.
	www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/86/1/56 (2426 words)

	HSI Conference 2004
		Many of the Zingiberales come from rainforest environments throughout the tropical world.
		While some Zingiberales appear to be able to survive major habitat modification, other lesser known and less robust species may not.
		He has been involved in HSI from its inception, was HSI president for 4 years, VP before that, and an active board member.
	hsi2004.tropicalflowerfarm.com /Carel.html (141 words)

	The Heliconia Society of Puerto Rico - Zingiberales
		The Heliconia Society of Puerto Rico - Zingiberales
		The Zingiberales order is made up of eight families of mostly tropical plants that are commonly grown as ornamentals.
		Specific characteristics which distinguish the Zingiberales from other plants include large leaves with parallel venation and often long petioles, and inflorescences composed of colorful bracts.
	www.heliconiasocietypr.org /zingiberales.htm (210 words)

	Montoso Gardens Tropical Flowers
		One of our specialties is the group of exotic tropical flowers that belong to the order Zingiberales.
		These plants possess strikingly unusual and long lasting flowers with beautiful tropical foliage, and make excellent specimens for the tropical garden, as flowering potted plants, and for cut flower arrangements.
		Click here for a complete list of our Zingiberales collection.
	www.montosogardens.com /tropical_flowers.htm (128 words)

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