Benkara
Encyclopedia
Benkara is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the Rubiaceae
family
. It is found in Tropical and Subtropical Asia. It was described by Michel Adanson
in 1763.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. It is found in Tropical and Subtropical Asia. It was described by Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
in 1763.
Species
- Benkara armigera (K.Schum.) Ridsdale
- Benkara canthioides (Champ. ex Benth.) Ridsdale
- Benkara depauperata (Drake) Ridsdale
- Benkara emanuelssoniana (Lour.) Ridsdale
- Benkara esculenta (Lour.) Ridsdale
- Benkara evenosa (Hutch.) Ridsdale
- Benkara fasciculata (Roxb.) Ridsdale
- Benkara forrestii (J.Anthony) Ridsdale
- Benkara griffithii (Hook.f.) Ridsdale
- Benkara hoaensis (Pierre ex Pit.) Ridsdale
- Benkara malabarica (Lam.) Tirveng
- Benkara microcarpa (Bartl. ex DC.) Ridsdale
- Benkara miquelii (Koord. & Valeton) Ridsdale
- Benkara ovoidea (Pierre ex Pit.) Ridsdale
- Benkara parviflora (King & Gamble) Ridsdale
- Benkara pierrei (Pit.) Ridsdale
- Benkara rectispina (Merr.) Ridsdale
- Benkara scandens (Thunb.) Ridsdale
- Benkara sinensis (Lour.) Ridsdale