Renealmia

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Renealmia
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Renealmia cernua
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Subfamily: Alpinioideae
Tribe: Alpinieae
Genus: Renealmia
L.f., conserved name
Synonyms [1]
  • AlpiniaL., rejected name
  • AmomumRuiz & Pav., rejected name
  • GethyraSalisb., without description
  • PeperidiumLindl., without description
  • SiphotriaRaf.
  • EthaniumSalisb. ex Kuntze, illegitimate superfluous name

Renealmia is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. [8] and indigenous medical treatments for leishmania and malaria [9] In Colombia, it is used to treat snakebite. [10] Bracts and leaves can serve as phytotelmata, retaining small quantities of water that offer habitat for other organisms. [11] [12]

Species include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. ↑ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  4. ↑ Maas, P. J. M. 1977. Renealmia (Zingiberaceae–Zingiberoideae), Costoideae (Additions) (Zingiberaceae). Flora Neotropica 18: 1–218.
  5. ↑ Vovides, A. P. 1994. Zingiberaceae. Flora de Veracruz 79: 1–16.
  6. ↑ Maas, P. J. M. & H. Maas van de Kamer. 2003. Zingiberaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 846–856.
  7. ↑ Nelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576.
  8. ↑ National Tropical Botanical Garden. 2015. http://www.ntbg.org
  9. ↑ D’Arcy, W.G. & Correa, A.M.D. (Eds), LaValadeau C., Castillo, D., Bourdy, G., Pabon, A., Deharo, E., Albán-Castillo J., Estevez, Y., Lores Fransis, A., Rojas, R., Gamboa, D. & Sauvain. M. (2009) Medicinal plants from the Yanesha (Peru): Evaluation of the leishmanicidal and antimalarial activity of selected extracts. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25 (3), pp. 273–285.
  10. ↑ Gómez-Betancur, I., and D. Benjumea. 2014. Traditional use of the genus Renealmia and Renealmia alpinia (Rottb.) Maas (Zingiberaceae)-a review in the treatment of snakebites. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. Asian Pac J Trop Med 2014; 7(Suppl 1): S574-S582.
  11. ↑ Darby, M. & Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Phytotelmatrichis, a new genus of Acrotrichinae (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) associated with the phytotelmata of Zingiberales plants in Peru. Zootaxa 4052(1): 96–106.
  12. ↑ Hayford, B., T. Förster, V. Patel, & C. S. Chaboo. 2021. Aquatic Diptera associated with Neotropical Zingiberales phytotelmata (Diptera). Journal of Natural History 54:43-44, 2815-2838.
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