Rogiera Explained
Rogiera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 15 species and its native range is from Mexico to Colombia.
Rogiera amoena, Rogiera cordata, and Rogiera gratissima are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals.[1] The type species for the genus is Rogiera amoena.[2]
Rogiera was named and published by Jules Émile Planchon in Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe (Fl. Serres Jard. Eur.) Vol.5 on page 442 in 1849.[3] The name honours the Belgian politician Charles Latour Rogier (1800–1885), who was also Minister for the Interior and patron of horticulture.[4]
Some authors have included Rogiera in a broadly defined Rondeletia, but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that Rogiera is closer to Guettarda than to Rondeletia.[5]
Species
The following species list may be incomplete or contain synonyms;
- Rogiera amoena Planch.
- Rogiera backhouses(Hook.f.) Borhidi
- Rogiera breedlovei (Lorence) Borhidi
- Rogiera cordata (Benth.) Planch.
- Rogiera edwardsii (Standl.) Borhidi
- Rogiera gratissima Linden
- Rogiera ligustroides (Hemsl.) Borhidi
- Rogiera macdougallii (Lorence) Borhidi
- Rogiera nicaraguensis (Oerst.) Borhidi
- Rogiera oaxacensis Borhidi & K.Velasco
- Rogiera standleyana (Ant.Molina) Lorence
- Rogiera stenosiphon (Hemsl.) Borhidi
- Rogiera tabascensis Borhidi
Notes and References
- Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. The Macmillan Press Limited, London; The Stockton Press, New York. (set)
- Rogiera In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile
- Jules Émile Planchon. 1849. Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe 5:442 and illustration.
- [Thomas Moore (botanist)|Thomas Moore]
- Ulrika Manns and Birgitta Bremer. 2010. "Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(1):21-39.
