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]
| Bikkia | |
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| Bikkia tetrandra | |
Scientific classification 
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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 | |
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Species
edit- Bikkia bridgeana F.Muell. - New Guinea
- Bikkia commerconiana K.Schum. - New Guinea
- Bikkia gaudichaudiana Brongn. - New Guinea
- Bikkia guilloviana Brongn. - New Guinea
- Bikkia longicarpa Valeton - Mariana Islands
- Bikkia moluccana Suess. ex Troll & Dragend. - Maluku
- Bikkia palauensis Valeton - Palau
- Bikkia pancheri (Brongn.) Guillaumin - Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu
- Bikkia philippinensis Valeton - Cebu
- Bikkia tetrandra (L.f.) A.Rich. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, Tonga, Vanuatu, Micronesia, Wallis-Futuna Islands
References
edit- ^ Mabberley DJ (2008). Mabberley's Plant Book (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4.
- ^ 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. Vol. 2. p. 8.
- ^ 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.
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