Hellenia

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Hellenia
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Hellenia speciosa (as "Costus speciosus")
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Costaceae
Genus: Hellenia
Retz. 1791 not Willd. 1797 (syn of Alpinia in Zingiberaceae)
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • BankseaJ.Koenig 1783, illegitimate parahomonym, not Banksia J.R Forster & J. G. A. Forster 1775 (Thymelaeaceae) nor Banksia L. f. 1782 (Proteaceae) nor Banksia Bruce 1790 (Rosaceae) nor Banksia Dombey ex DC. 1828 (Lythraceae) [2] [3]
  • TsianaJ.F.Gmel.
  • PlaneraGiseke 1792, illegitimate homonym not J.F. Gmel. 1791 (Ulmaceae)
  • CheilocostusC.D.Specht
  • PyxaNoronha

Hellenia is a genus of plants in the Costaceae described as a genus with this name in 1791. [4] [2] [5] It is native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, and Queensland. [1] The type species was "H. grandiflora" Retz., which is a synonym of Hellenia speciosa .

Species

Plants of the World Online [6] currently includes the following (with some botanists [7] preferring to retain the genus Cheilocostus ):

formerly included [1]

now in other genera: Alpinia Hornstedtia Plagiostachys

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 1 2 3 Tropicos, Hellenia Retz.
  3. Tropicos, search for Banksia
  4. Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1791. Observationes Botanicae 6: 18
  5. Specht, C. D. & D. W. Stevenson. 2006. A new phylogeny-based generic classification of Costaceae (Zingiberales). Taxon 55(1): 153–163
  6. Plants of the World Online: Hellenia (retrieved 23 September 2020)
  7. Leong-Škorničková J, Šída O (2016) Proposal to conserve the name Cheilocostus against Hellenia and Tsiana (Costaceae). Taxon (2482) 65: 1426-1427.