Bikkia Explained

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]

Species

• 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

External links

• Bikkia in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Notes and References

1. Book: Mabberley DJ. 2008. Mabberley's Plant Book. 3. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-82071-4.
2. Book: Reinwardt CGC. 1825. Sylloge Plantarum Novarum Itemque Minus Cognitarum a Praestantissimis Botanicis adhuc Viventibus Collecta et a Societate Regia Botanica Ratisbonensi Edita. 2. Brenk CE. 8.
3. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/a2011n1a8 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.