Parent taxon: Monocots according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Acorales, Aglaoreidia, Araceae, Arecaceae, Arecales, Asparagales, Commelinales, Commelinids, Dioscoreales, Liliaceae, Liliales, Pandanales, Petrosaviales, Poales
Subtaxa: Cannaceae Costaceae Ensete Heliconiaceae Lowiaceae Marantaceae Musaceae Strelitziaceae Zingiberaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1 collection), Germany (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Nepal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Germany (33), India (2), Nepal (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (10), United States (1: Montana), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (13), the Russian Federation (14), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (57: North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (10: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Colombia (2), United States (1: Colorado)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (8: New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 169 collections including 179 occurrences