Bikkia

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Bikkia
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Bikkia tetrandra
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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
Synonyms
  • BikkiopsisBrongn. & 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]

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  39. Ochrosia silvaticaDäniker – New Caledonia
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  42. Ochrosia tahitensisLaness. ex Pichon – Tahiti
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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. p. 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.