''Reldia'' is a genus of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

s in the family

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Ges ...

. They are also in the Beslerieae tribe. They are native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá and Peru in South America. It contains the following species, according to

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; * '' Reldia alternifolia'' Wiehler * '' Reldia calcarata'' L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog * '' Reldia grandiflora'' L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog * '' Reldia longipedunculata'' J.L.Clark * '' Reldia minutiflora'' (L.E. Skog) L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog * '' Reldia multiflora'' L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog The genus name of ''Reldia'' is in honour of

Robert Louis Dressler Robert (Louis) Dressler (born 1927, died October 15, 2019, in Paraíso, Costa Rica) was an American botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae. He graduated from the University of Southern California and Harvard University. In 1977 ...

(born 1927), an American botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the ''

Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family (biology), family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan plants that ...

'' family. It was first described and published in Selbyana Vol.2 on page 124 in 1977. The genus is recognized by the

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and the

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, but they do not list any known species.

References

Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Gesneriaceae genera Plants described in 1977 Flora of Costa Rica Flora of Panama Flora of western South America {{Gesneriaceae-stub