• Source: Reedia (plant)

Reedia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae. It only contains one known species, Reedia spathacea, endemic to south-western Australia.
The genus name of Reedia is in honour of Joseph Reed (c. 1823 – 1890), a Cornishman by birth, was a prolific and influential Victorian era architect in Melbourne, Australia. The Latin specific epithet of spathacea is derived from spathaceus meaning spathed, derived from spatha, meaning blade.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Fragm. Vol.1 on page3 239-240 in 1859.




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• Reedia
• Reedia (plant)
• Joseph Reed (architect)
• Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae
• List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z)
• List of threatened flora of Australia
• Cyperaceae
• List of Australian plant species authored by Ferdinand von Mueller
• List of rare flora of the Warren region