''Ridsdalea'' is an Asian genus of plants in the family
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae () is a family (biology), family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with Petiole ( ...
; it was named after Dr.
Colin Ernest Ridsdale Colin may refer to:
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(1944–2017), who was an English botanist and specialist in tropical plants and the 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
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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, Pacific Islands, and Australia.
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus and John Ellis after ...
grandis''.
Several other species have been reassigned from other genera: notably ''
Rothmannia
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are gene ...
'', 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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History
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,
POWO: ''Ridsdalea'' JT Pereira & KM Wong (retrieved 20 April 2024)
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list: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
Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, wit ...
'' (Korth.) J.T.Pereira - type species
# '' 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 philippinensis''
# '' Ridsdalea pseudoternifolia'' (Valeton) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea puffiana'' J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea pulcherrima'' (Kurz) J.T.Pereira
# '' Ridsdalea quadrasii''
# '' 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
External links
Images at iNaturalist
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Gardenieae
Rubiaceae genera
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia