''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
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
History
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;
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Reldia alternifolia''
Wiehler
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Reldia calcarata''
L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
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Reldia grandiflora''
L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog
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Reldia longipedunculata''
J.L.Clark
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Reldia minutiflora
''Reldia'' is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. 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 Plants of th ...
''
(L.E. Skog) L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog
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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
United States Department of Agriculture
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and the
Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area. ARS is charged with ext ...
, 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
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