Bikkia

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]

Bikkia
Bikkia tetrandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Cinchonoideae
Tribe:	Chiococceae
Genus:	Bikkia Reinw. ex Blume
Type species
Bikkia tetrandra (L.f.) A.Rich.
Synonyms
Bikkiopsis Brongn. & Gris Cormigonus Raf.

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

References

1. Mabberley DJ (2008). Mabberley's Plant Book (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4.
2. Reinwardt CGC (1825). Brenk CE (ed.). Sylloge Plantarum Novarum Itemque Minus Cognitarum a Praestantissimis Botanicis adhuc Viventibus Collecta et a Societate Regia Botanica Ratisbonensi Edita. Vol. 2. p. 8.
3. 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.

External links

• Bikkia in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae