Roigella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Roigella correifolia (Griseb.) Borhidi & M.Fernández[2]

Roigella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Roigella
Borhidi & M.Fernández
Synonyms[1]

Rondeletia correifolia Griseb.

It is native to Cuba.[2] It is found in pineland habitats.[3]

The genus name of Roigella is in honour of Juan Tomás Roig (1877–1971), a Cuban teacher and botanist in Havana.[4] It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of correifolia means. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. Vol.27 on page 310 (1981, published in 1982).[2][1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Roigella correifolia (Griseb.) Borhidi & M.Fernández". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Roigella Borhidi & M.Fernández | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  3. ^ Pellegrini, Marco O. O.; Hickman, Ellen J.; Guttiérrez, Jorge E.; Smith, Rhian J.; Hopper, Stephen D. (2020). "Revisiting the taxonomy of the Neotropical Haemodoraceae (Commelinales)". PhytoKeys (169): 1–59. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.169.57996. PMC 7732820. PMID 33354138.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.