Gagnepainia

Gagnepainia
Gagnepainia harmandii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Zingiberaceae
Subfamily:	Zingiberoideae
Tribe:	Globbeae
Genus:	Gagnepainia K.Schum. [1] [2]

Gagnepainia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. It has three known species, all native to Indochina.

The genus was named in 1904 by Karl Moritz Schumann ^{[1] [2]} for French botanist François Gagnepain, who described many new species from the former colony of French Indochina. ^[3]

Species

Three species were initially described in 1895 as members of Hemiorchis , then transferred to the newly created Gagnepainia in 1904. ^[4]

1. Gagnepainia godefroyi (Baill.) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia
2. Gagnepainia harmandii (Baill.) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler (synonym G. thoreliana(Baill.) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler) - Cambodia, Vietnam

References

1. IPNI International Plant Name Index: Gagnepainia. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
2. Schumann, K.M. (1904) Das Pflanzenreich (Engler) Zingib. 129.
3. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2 by Umberto Quattrocchi
4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

External links

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Genera in the Zingiberaceae, Gagnepainia Archived 2014-07-15 at the Wayback Machine