Palms, Bananas And Gingers (Arecales/Zingiberales)

This group gathers Flowering Plants subcategory members belonging to the two related monocot orders Arecales and Zingiberales, both part of the commelinid clade of monocots and both containing economically central tropical crop plants. Arecales contributes the palm family Arecaceae, trees and shrubs with a single unbranched trunk topped by a crown of large fan- or feather-shaped leaves, spanning the date palm and the coconut palm among many others; Zingiberales contributes the banana family Musaceae and the bird-of-paradise family Strelitziaceae, herbaceous giants that achieve tree-like size without ever producing true woody tissue, instead building height from tightly overlapping leaf bases. Both orders are kept together under one heading at this subcategory's current scale rather than given separate single-digit headings.