Hellenia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Hellenia

Hellenia speciosa (as "Costus speciosus")
Scientific classification
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]

* Banksea J.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]
* Tsiana J.F.Gmel.
* Planera Giseke 1792, illegitimate homonym not J.F. Gmel. 1791 (Ulmaceae)
* Cheilocostus C.D.Specht
* Pyxa Noronha

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):

* 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.

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