Riedelia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Zingiberales

Familia: Zingiberaceae
Subfamilia: Alpinioideae
Tribus: Riedelieae
Genus: Riedelia
Species: R. affinis – R. alata – R. albertisii – R. angustifolia – R. areolata – R. arfakensis – R. aurantiaca – R. bicuspis – R. bidentata – R. bismarcki-montium – R. brachybotrys – R. branderhorstii – R. brevicornu – R. capillidens – R. charontis – R. corallina – R. cordylinoides – R. curcumoidea – R. curviflora – R. decurva – R. dolichopteron – R. epiphytica – R. erecta – R. eupteron – R. exalata – R. ferruginea – R. flava – R. fulgens – R. geanthus – R. geluensis – R. geminiflora – R. graminea – R. grandiligula – R. hirtella – R. hollandiae – R. insignis – R. klossii – R. lanata – R. lanatiligulata – R. latiligula – R. ligulata – R. longifolia – R. longirostra – R. longisepala – R. macranthoides – R. macrothyrsa – R. maculata – R. marafungensis – R. maxima – R. microbotrya – R. minor – R. monophylla – R. montana – R. monticola – R. nymanii – R. orchioides – R. paniculata – R. plectophylla – R. pterocalyx – R. pulcherrima – R. purpurata – R. rigidocalyx – R. robusta – R. rosacea – R. schlechteri – R. sessilanthera – R. stricta – R. subalpina – R. suborbicularis – R. subulocalyx – R. tenuifolia – R. triciliata – R. umbellata – R. urceolata – R. whitei – R. wollastonii
Name

Riedelia Oliv., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 15: t. 1419 (1883), nom. cons.

Type species: Riedelia curviflora Oliv., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 15: t. 1419 (1883)

Synonyms

Homonyms
Riedelia Kunth Enum. Pl. 1: 515. (1833) (Vide: Arundinella Raddi, (1823) Poaceae) BHL
Riedelia Meisn. Fl. Bras. 7: 171. (1863) (Vide: Satyria Klotzsch, (1851) Ericaceae) BHL
Riedelia Cham. Linnaea 7: 240 ("224"). (1832) (Verbenaceae) nom. rej. BHL
Heterotypic
Nyctophylax Zipp., Alg. Konst- Lett.-Bode 1: 298 (1829), nom. rej.
Rudelia Oliv., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 15: t. 1419 (1883), orth. var.
Naumannia Warb., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 452 (1891)
Oliverodoxa Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 692 (1891)
Thylacophora Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9: 209 (1916)

References

Oliver, D. (1883) Hooker's Icones Plantarum 15: 15. BHL
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Riedelia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 May 5. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Riedelia. Published online. Accessed: May 5 2015.
Newman, M.F. 2010. A new species of Riedelia (Zingiberaceae) from Papua,, Indonesia. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 67: 65–68. DOI: 10.1017/S0960428609990242 Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2015. Riedelia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 May 5.

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]
References

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