Riedelia (plant)

Riedelia is a genus of plants in the family Zingiberaceae. The genus contains approximately 75 species that are distributed among New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Maluku Province in eastern Indonesia.[1] Among the described species is Riedelia charontis, which was formally described in 2010.[2]

Riedelia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Subfamily: Alpinioideae
Tribe: Riedelieae
Genus: Riedelia
Oliv., conserved name
Type species
Riedelia curviflora
Oliv.
Synonyms[1]
  • Nyctophylax Zipp., rejected name
  • Rudelia Oliv., spelling variant
  • Naumannia Warb.
  • Oliverodoxa Kuntze
  • Thylacophora Ridl.

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Newman, MF. 2010. A new species of Riedelia (Zingiberaceae) from Papua, Indonesia. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 67(1): 65-68. doi:10.1017/S0960428609990242


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