Ornichia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon = Ornichia

|authority = Klack., 1986

}}

Ornichia is a plant genus in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), tribe Exaceae.{{cite journal|last1=Klackenberg|first1=Jens|title=The new genus Ornichia (Gentianaceae) from Madagascar.|journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section B|volume=8|pages=195–206}}{{cite journal|last1=Yuan|first1=Yong-Ming|last2=Wohlauser|first2=Sébastien|last3=Moller|first3=Michael|last4=Chassot|first4=Philippe|last5=Mansion|first5=Guilhem|last6=Grant|first6=Jason|last7=Küpfer|first7=Philippe|last8=Klackenberg|first8=Jens|title=Monophyly and relationships of the tribe Exaceae (Gentianaceae) inferred from nuclear ribosomal and chloroplast DNA sequences|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|date=2003|volume=28|issue=3|pages=500–517|doi=10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00068-X|pmid=12927134|bibcode=2003MolPE..28..500Y |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/254972/files/Yuan_Y-M.-Monophyly-20150414.pdf}} The genus is endemic to Madagascar.[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:924982-1 Ornichia Klack.] Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 21 September 2022.