Rhysotoechia

Rhysotoechia is a genus of plants in the soapberry family Sapindaceae which is native to parts of Malesia and Australia.

Taxonomy

The genus was created in 1879 by the Bavarian-born botanist Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer. The type species is Rhysotoechia mortoniana, based on Cupania mortoniana .

Distribution and habitat

Species in this genus inhabit rainforest or rainforest margins, from Borneo east to New Guinea, and from the Philippines south to eastern Australia.

Species

The following list includes all 19 species of Rhysotoechia that are accepted by both Plants of the World Online and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Rhysotoechia applanata - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia bifoliolata - Queensland, New South Wales

R. b. subsp. nitida - Queensland

Rhysotoechia bilocularis - Western New Guinea

Rhysotoechia congesta - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia elongata - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia etmanii - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia flavescens - Queensland

Rhysotoechia florulenta - Queensland

Rhysotoechia gracilipes - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia grandifolia - Borneo, Maluku Islands

Rhysotoechia koordersii - Borneo, Sulawesi

Rhysotoechia longipaniculata - Western New Guinea

Rhysotoechia momiensis - Western New Guinea

Rhysotoechia mortoniana - Queensland

Rhysotoechia multiscapa - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia obtusa - Papua New Guinea

Rhysotoechia ramiflora - Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi

Rhysotoechia robertsonii - Papua New Guinea, Queensland

Rhysotoechia welzeniana - Papua New Guinea

References

Flora of New Guinea

Flora of New South Wales

Flora of Queensland

Flora of Malesia

Sapindaceae genera

Sapindales of Australia