Hernandia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Hernandia

Hernandia nymphaeifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Magnoliids
Order:  | Laurales
Family:  | Hernandiaceae
Genus:  | Hernandia

Species

See text

Synonyms

* Hazomalamia Capuron
* Hernandiopsis Meisn.
* Hertelia Neck.
* Valvanthera C.T.White

Hernandia cordigera \- MHNT

Hernandia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hernandiaceae. It was named after the Spanish botanist Francisco Hernández de Toledo.[1]

## Species

As of January 2018[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[2]

* Hernandia albiflora (C.T.White) Kubitzki – northeast Queensland
* Hernandia beninensis Welw. ex Henriq. – São Tomé
* Hernandia bivalvis Benth. – eastern Queensland
* Hernandia catalpifolia Britton & Harris – Jamaica
* Hernandia cordigera Vieill. – New Caledonia
* Hernandia cubensis Griseb. – Cuba
* Hernandia didymantha Donn.Sm. – southern Mexico (Chiapas), Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador
* Hernandia drakeana Nadeaud – Society Islands (Moorea)
* Hernandia guianensis Aubl. – Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil
* Hernandia hammelii D'Arcy – Panama
* Hernandia jamaicensis Britton & Harris – Jamaica
* Hernandia kunstleri King ex K.Heyne
* Hernandia labyrinthica Tuyama – New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Marianas
* Hernandia leucomphala (Hoffmanns.) Steud.
* Hernandia lychnifera Grayum & N.Zamora – Ecuador
* Hernandia mascarenensis (Meisn.) Kubitzki – Mauritius and Réunion
* Hernandia moerenhoutiana Guill. – Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoan Islands, Society Islands, Tubuai Islands, Niue, and Wallis and Futuna
* Hernandia nukuhivensis F.Br. – Marquesas Islands
* Hernandia nymphaeifolia (C.Presl) Kubitzki – Madagascar , Indian Ocean islands, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland), and South Pacific
* Hernandia obovata O.C.Schmidt – Haiti
* Hernandia olivacea Gillespie – Fiji
* Hernandia ovigera L. – Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines , New Guinea, and South Pacific
* Hernandia papuana C.T.White
* Hernandia rostrata Kubitzki – Solomon Islands
* Hernandia samoensis Hochr.
* Hernandia sonora L. – Mexico and the Caribbean islands
* Hernandia stenura Standl. – southern Mexico, Central America, and Colombia
* Hernandia stokesii (F.Br.) Kubitzki
* Hernandia temarii Nadeaud – Society Islands (Tahiti)
* Hernandia voyronii Jum. – Madagascar
* Hernandia wendtii Espejo – central Mexico to Honduras

## References

1. ↑ Quattrocchi, U. Hernandia. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. CRC Press, 2012. Page 1962.
2. ↑ "Hernandia: Accepted Species". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21422-1#children. Retrieved 2018-01-16.

## External links

* Taxonomy
* Hernandiaceae at the University of Hawaii
* links at CSDL, Texas
* Vegetation of the Montane Region of Savai'i, W. Arthur Whistler.
* PPP-Index Pflanzerneinkaufsfürer für Europa [1]

Wikidata ☰ Q2701380 entry

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