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Renealmia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image_caption = Renealmia cernua

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|taxon = Renealmia

|authority = L.f., conserved name

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|synonyms =

  • Alpinia L., rejected name
  • Amomum Ruiz & Pav., rejected name
  • Gethyra Salisb., without description
  • Peperidium Lindl., without description
  • Siphotria Raf.
  • Ethanium Salisb. ex Kuntze, illegitimate superfluous name

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Renealmia is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=260855 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroMaas, P. J. M. 1977. Renealmia (Zingiberaceae–Zingiberoideae), Costoideae (Additions) (Zingiberaceae). Flora Neotropica 18: 1–218.Vovides, A. P. 1994. Zingiberaceae. Flora de Veracruz 79: 1–16.Maas, P. J. M. & H. Maas van de Kamer. 2003. Zingiberaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 846–856.Nelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576. In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes.National Tropical Botanical Garden. 2015. http://www.ntbg.org and indigenous medical treatments for leishmania and malariaD’Arcy, W.G. & Correa, A.M.D. (Eds), LaValadeau C., Castillo, D., Bourdy, G., Pabon, A., Deharo, E., Albán-Castillo J., Estevez, Y., Lores Fransis, A., Rojas, R., Gamboa, D. & Sauvain. M. (2009) Medicinal plants from the Yanesha (Peru): Evaluation of the leishmanicidal and antimalarial activity of selected extracts. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25 (3), pp. 273–285. In Colombia, it is used to treat snakebite.Gómez-Betancur, I., and D. Benjumea. 2014. Traditional use of the genus Renealmia and Renealmia alpinia (Rottb.) Maas (Zingiberaceae)-a review in the treatment of snakebites. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. Asian Pac J Trop Med 2014; 7(Suppl 1): S574-S582. Bracts and leaves can serve as phytotelmata, retaining small quantities of water that offer habitat for other organisms.Darby, M. & Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Phytotelmatrichis, a new genus of Acrotrichinae (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) associated with the phytotelmata of Zingiberales plants in Peru. Zootaxa 4052(1): 96–106.Hayford, B., T. Förster, V. Patel, & C. S. Chaboo. 2021. Aquatic Diptera associated with Neotropical Zingiberales phytotelmata (Diptera). Journal of Natural History 54:43-44, 2815-2838.

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Category:Zingiberaceae genera

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