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.
| Hellenia | |
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| Hellenia speciosa (as "Costus speciosus") | |
Scientific classification 
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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] | |
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Species
editPlants of the World Online[6] currently includes the following (with some botanists[7] preferring to retain the genus Cheilocostus):
- Hellenia borneensis (A.D.Poulsen) Govaerts
- Hellenia globosa (Blume) S.R.Dutta - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
- Hellenia lacera (Gagnep.) Govaerts
- Hellenia sopuensis (Maas & H.Maas) Govaerts
- Hellenia speciosa (J.Koenig) S.R.Dutta (synonym Cheilocostus speciosus) - China, Indian Subcontinent, Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Queensland; naturalized in Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii, Central America, West Indies
- formerly included[1]
now in other genera: Alpinia Hornstedtia Plagiostachys
- H. abnormis - Alpinia chinensis
- H. alba - Alpinia galanga
- H. allughas - Alpinia nigra
- H. aquatica - Alpinia aquatica
- H. arctiflora - Alpinia arctiflora
- H. bracteata - Alpinia ludwigiana
- H. caerulea - Alpinia caerulea
- H. chinensis - Alpinia chinensis
- H. gracilis - Alpinia elegans
- H. melanocarpa - Alpinia aquatica
- H. parviflora - Plagiostachys parviflora
- H. pubiflora - Alpinia pubiflora
- H. rubra - Hornstedtia rubra
- H. rufa - Alpinia rufa
- H. scabra - Alpinia scabra
References
edit- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b c Tropicos, Hellenia Retz.
- ^ Tropicos, search for Banksia
- ^ Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1791. Observationes Botanicae 6: 18
- ^ Specht, C. D. & D. W. Stevenson. 2006. A new phylogeny-based generic classification of Costaceae (Zingiberales). Taxon 55(1): 153–163
- ^ Plants of the World Online: Hellenia (retrieved 23 September 2020)
- ^ Leong-Škorničková J, Šída O (2016) Proposal to conserve the name Cheilocostus against Hellenia and Tsiana (Costaceae). Taxon (2482) 65: 1426-1427.