Phylogeny Study of 20 Selected Species of Zingiberaceae from Ex situ Collections in Peninsular Malaysia

Zingiberaceae is widely distributed in Malaysia, with 750 species and 31 genera. This family comprises a different number of subfamilies genera according to taxonomic classification methods — classical taxonomy: one subfamily four tribes vs molecular six tribes. However, the still debated, especially taxonomy. It due some showing cryptic morphologies that make it difficult classify them through taxonomy, which refers unique morphological characteristics tribe/species. Therefore, accurate required by using approach. In this study, 20 selected collected from Agricultural Conservatory Park, Institute Bioscience (IBS), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) were taxonomically classified method help three random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers until tribe level. The combined RAPD ISSR unweighted pair group arithmetic mean (UPGMA) phylogenetic tree was comparable Zingiberaceae’s current grouped into (Alpinieae, Zingiberaceae, Globbeae). finding has contributed additional biological information better manage IBS, UPM. Further studies are needed explore genetic diversities properties species.