Hildegardia (plant)

Hildegardia
Hildegardia barteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Sterculioideae
Genus:	Hildegardia

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Hildegardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. In older systems of classification, it was placed in Sterculiaceae, but all members of that family are now in an expanded Malvaceae. The genus is named for Saint Hildegard of Bingen due to her contributions to herbal medicine.^[1]

Hildegardia contains the following species:

• Hildegardia ankaranensis (Arènes) Kosterm.
• Hildegardia australensis G.Leach & M.Cheek (1991)
• Hildegardia barteri (Mast.) Kosterm.
• Hildegardia cubensis (Urb.) Kosterm. (Guana, Guanabaum)
• Hildegardia erythrosiphon (Baill.) Kosterm.
• Hildegardia gillettii L.J.Dorr & L.C.Barnett (1990)
• Hildegardia merrittii (Merrill) Kosterm.
• Hildegardia migeodii (Exell) Kosterm.
• Hildegardia perrieri (Hochr.) Arènes
• Hildegardia populifolia
• Hildegardia sundaica Kosterm.

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