Family Costaceae Nakai 1941
Angiospermae - Zingiberales - Costaceae
Parent taxon: Zingiberales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
Sister taxa: Cannaceae, Ensete, Heliconiaceae, Lowiaceae, Marantaceae, Musaceae, Strelitziaceae, Zingiberaceae
Subtaxa: Hellenia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Costaceae in the database