Riedelia (plant)

Riedelia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): 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.

Riedelia is a genus of plants in the Zingiberaceae family. 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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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