Bitter ginger vs Lang's Red Colobus

Zingiber zerumbet compared with Piliocolobus langi

Key Differences

• Bitter ginger is Data Deficient while Lang's Red Colobus is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bitter ginger	Lang's Red Colobus
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Zingiberales (Zingiberales)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Zingiberaceae	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
Genus	Zingiber	Piliocolobus
Species	Zingiber zerumbet	Piliocolobus langi

Conservation Status

Bitter ginger

DD — Data Deficient

Lang's Red Colobus

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bitter ginger	Lang's Red Colobus
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bitter ginger

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and montane grasslands and shrublands, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Oceanian realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (Taiwan), North America (Cuba, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, Tonga), and South America (Brazil).

Lang's Red Colobus

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Bitter ginger

The Bitter ginger (Zingiber zerumbet) is a species in the genus Zingiber. It is currently classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and montane grasslands and shrublands, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and