Reicheella

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Reicheella

|parent_authority = Pax (1900)

|species = andicola

|authority = (Phil.) Pax (1900)

|synonyms =

• Bryopsis {{small|Reiche (1895), nom. illeg.}}
• Bryopsis andicola {{small|(Phil.) Reiche (1895)}}
• Lyallia andicola {{small|Phil. (1891)}}

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Reicheella andicola (Phil.) Pax {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:218433-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 March 2024|language=en}}

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Reicheella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae.{{cite web |title=Reicheella Pax {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295540-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 May 2021 |language=en}} It has a synonym of Bryopsis {{small|Reiche}}, and only contains one known species, Reicheella andicola (Phil.) Pax

Its native range is northern Chile.

The genus name of Reicheella is in honour of Karl Friedrich Reiche (1860–1929), a German botanist who worked as a university professor in Chile and Mexico.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of andicola is a compound word; with 'Andi-' meaning the Andes and also the Latin cola for "dweller" (from colere "to dwell").{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} It was first described and published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. Vol.2 on page 21 in 1900.