• Source: Hellenia

      • 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 Subcontinent, New Guinea, and Queensland. The type species was "H. grandiflora" Retz., which is a synonym of Hellenia speciosa.


      Species


      Plants of the World Online currently includes the following (with some botanists preferring to retain the genus Cheilocostus):

      Hellenia borneensis (A.D.Poulsen) Govaerts
      Hellenia globosa (Blume) S.R.Dutta - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
      Hellenia lacera (Gagnep.) Govaerts
      Hellenia sopuensis (Maas & H.Maas) Govaerts
      Hellenia speciosa (J.Koenig) S.R.Dutta (synonym Cheilocostus speciosus) - China, Indian Subcontinent, Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Queensland; naturalized in Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii, Central America, West Indies
      formerly included
      now in other genera: Alpinia Hornstedtia Plagiostachys


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