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.
^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ abcTropicos, 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
Hellenia is a genus of plants in the Costaceae described as a genus with this name in 1791. It is native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian...
plant in the family Costaceae. Some botanists have now revived the synonym Hellenia speciosa for this species. It is native to southeast Asia and surrounding...
Dimerocostus, 16 in Tapeinochilos, 2 in Paracostus, c. 8 in Chamaecostus, c. 5 in Hellenia, and c. 80 in Costus). They are native to tropical climates of Asia, Africa...
– in 1810 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who gave it the name Hellenia caerulea. The English botanist George Bentham reviewed the taxon in 1873...
with some botanists preferring to place the five species in the genus Hellenia. The Plant List lists five accepted species: Cheilocostus borneensis A...
Mueller, published in his massive work Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae as Hellenia arctiflora. In the same year George Bentham renamed the species Alpinia...
the latter ascended to the stars during a terrible flood) Medea Thiania Hellenia Minna, fl. 2013 BCE, faced an invasion of Finns from the east, who settled...
the name von Hellens. The botanical genus Costus was formerly known as Hellenia after Carl Niclas von Hellens. Carl Reinhold Sahlberg, one of his students...
1992 P. heilongshanensis Xue, Cui & Zhang, 1996 P. hejinga Xue, 1998 P. hellenia Lyneborg, 1965 P. helvitibia Feng, 2002 P. hennigi Lyneborg, 1970 P. heteromma...
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