Bikkia

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Bikkia
Bikkia tetrandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Chiococceae
Genus: Bikkia
Reinw. ex Blume
Type species
Bikkia tetrandra
(L.f.) A.Rich.

Bikkia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is native to eastern Malesia and the western Pacific.[1] The genus was named by Caspar Reinwardt in 1825.[2] Bikkia is polyphyletic and Bikkia tetrandra is more related to Badusa than to some other species of Bikkia.[3]

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  1. ^ Mabberley DJ (2008). Mabberley's Plant Book (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4. 
  2. ^ Reinwardt CGC (1825). Brenk CE. ed. Sylloge Plantarum Novarum Itemque Minus Cognitarum a Praestantissimis Botanicis adhuc Viventibus Collecta et a Societate Regia Botanica Ratisbonensi Edita. 2. pp. 8. 
  3. ^ Manns U, Bremer B (2010). "Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 21–39. http://www.bergianska.se/pub/publikationer/Manns/Manns_Bremer_2010.pdf. 

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