Biology:Bikkia

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Short description: Genus of plants

Bikkia
Bikkia tetrandra.jpg
Bikkia tetrandra
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Chiococceae
Genus: Bikkia
Reinw. ex Blume
Type species
Bikkia tetrandra
(L.f.) A.Rich.
Synonyms
  • Bikkiopsis Brongn. & Gris
  • Cormigonus Raf.

Bikkia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to the Philippines , the Maluku region of eastern Indonesia, New Guinea and the western Pacific (Melanesia and Micronesia).[1] The genus was named by Caspar Reinwardt in 1825.[2] Seven of the New Caledonian species previously included in Bikkia were transferred to a separate genus, Thiollierea, in 2011 based on molecular and morphological information.[3]

Species

  • Bikkia bridgeana F.Muell. - New Guinea
  • Bikkia commerconiana K.Schum. - New Guinea
  • Bikkia gaudichaudiana Brongn. - New Guinea
  • Bikkia guilloviana Brongn. - New Guinea
  • Bikkia longicarpa Valeton - Mariana Islands
  • Bikkia moluccana Suess. ex Troll & Dragend. - Maluku
  • Bikkia palauensis Valeton - Palau
  • Bikkia pancheri (Brongn.) Guillaumin - Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu
  • Bikkia philippinensis Valeton - Cebu
  • Bikkia tetrandra (L.f.) A.Rich. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, Tonga, Vanuatu, Micronesia, Wallis-Futuna Islands

References

  1. Mabberley DJ (2008). Mabberley's Plant Book (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4. 
  2. Reinwardt CGC (1825). Brenk CE. ed. Sylloge Plantarum Novarum Itemque Minus Cognitarum a Praestantissimis Botanicis adhuc Viventibus Collecta et a Societate Regia Botanica Ratisbonensi Edita. 2. pp. 8. 
  3. Barrabé L., Mouly A., Lowry II P. P. & Munzinger J. 2011. — Reinstatement of the endemic New Caledonian genus Thiollierea Montrouz. (Rubiaceae) necessitated by the polyphyly of Bikkia Reinw. as currently circumscribed. Adansonia, sér. 3, 33 (1): 115–134.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3320753 entry