Rhodoleia

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Rhodoleia
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Rhodoleia championii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Hamamelidaceae
Subfamily: Rhodoleioideae
Genus: Rhodoleia
Champ. ex Hook.
Species [1]

6, see text

Rhodoleia is a genus of plants in the family Hamamelidaceae. It includes six species which range from southern China to northern Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra. [1] Together with its sister genus Exbucklandia , Rhodoleia forms the sister clade to the other 25 genera of Hamamelidaceae. [2] Flowers of Rhodoleia are bird-pollinated. Nectar-foraging birds including Japanese white-eyes (Zosterops japonicus, Zosteropidae) and fork-tailed sunbirds (Aethopyga christinae, Nectariniidae), avidly visit the flowers, which they also pollinate in the process. [3]

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Species

Six species are accepted. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rhodoleia Champ. ex Hook". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 28 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Li, J.-H., A. L. Bogle, and A. S. Klein. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships of the Hamamelidaceae inferred from sequences of internal transcribed spaces (ITS) of nuclear ribosome DNA. Am. J. Bot. 86: 1027–1037.
  3. ↑ Gu, L., Z. Luo, D. Zhang, and S. S. Renner. 2010. Passerine pollination of Rhodoleia championii (Hamamelidaceae) in subtropical China. Biotropica 42(3): 336–341.
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