''Ridsdalea'' is an Asian genus of plants in the family
Rubiaceae; it was named after Dr. Colin Ernest Ridsdale (1944–2017), who was an English botanist and Specialist in tropical plants and Rubiaceae family. The type species is ''
Ridsdalea grandis
''Ridsdalea grandis'' (synonym ''Gardenia grandis'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae native to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo; it is the type species of the genus ''Ridsdalea''.
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Gardenieae
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(Korth.) J.T.Pereira, which was renamed from the
basionym
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Gardenia
''Gardenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Madagascar and Pacific Islands, and Australia.
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus and John Ellis aft ...
grandis''.
Several other species have been reassigned from other genera: notably ''
Rothmannia'', which is now reserved for African species. Its native range is southern China, Indo-China, Malesia and New Guinea.
Species
As accepted by
Plants of the World Online
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POWO: ''Ridsdalea'' JT Pereira & KM Wong (retrieved 24 July 2019)
/ref> and IPNI list:Ridsdalea eucodon
''Ridsdalea eucodon'' (synonym ''Rothmannia eucodon''Bremekamp CEB (1957) ''Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. C'' 60: 7.) is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae found in Indo-China. Its name in Vietnamese is ''găng cơm'' or ''găng cao' ...
'' (K.Schum.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea forsteniana'' (Miq.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea graciliflora'' (Merr.) J.T.Pereira
# ''Ridsdalea grandis
''Ridsdalea grandis'' (synonym ''Gardenia grandis'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae native to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo; it is the type species of the genus ''Ridsdalea''.
References
Gardenieae
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'' (Korth.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea kampucheana'' (Tirveng.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea kassamensis'' J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea lagunensis'' (Merr.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea leytensis'' (J.T.Pereira & Ridsdale) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea macromera'' (Lauterb. & K.Schum.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea merrillii'' (Elmer) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea negrosensis'' (Merr.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea nigrescens'' (Valeton) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea papuana'' J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea pseudoternifolia'' (Valeton) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea puffiana'' J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea pulcherrima'' (Kurz) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea schoemannii'' (Teijsm. & Binn.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea sootepensis'' (Craib) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea sundaensis'' J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea thailandica'' (Tirveng.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea uranthera'' (C.E.C.Fisch.) K.M.Wong
# '' Ridsdalea uvarioides'' (Valeton) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea venalis'' (Bremek.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea vidalii'' (Bremek.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea vietnamensis'' (Tirveng.) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea wittii'' (Craib) J.T.Pereira
References
Gardenieae
Rubiaceae genera
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia
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