Hernandia

Hernandia
Hernandia nymphaeifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Hernandiaceae
Genus:	Hernandia Plum. ex L.
Species
See text
Synonyms
Biasolettia J.Presl Hazomalamia Capuron Hernandezia Hoffmanns. Hernandiopsis Meisn. Hertelia Neck. Valvanthera C.T.White

Hernandia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hernandiaceae. It was named after the Spanish botanist Francisco Hernández de Toledo.

Species

As of May 2026^[update], Plants of the World Online accepts the following species:

• Hernandia albiflora (C.T.White) Kubitzki – northeast Queensland
• Hernandia beninensis Welw. ex Henriq. – São Tomé
• Hernandia bivalvis Benth. – eastern Queensland
• Hernandia catalpifolia Britton & Harris – Jamaica
• Hernandia cordigera Vieill. – New Caledonia
• Hernandia cubensis Griseb. – Cuba
• Hernandia didymantha Donn.Sm. – southern Mexico (Chiapas), Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador
• Hernandia drakeana Nadeaud – Society Islands (Moorea)
• Hernandia guianensis Aubl. – Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil
• Hernandia hammelii D'Arcy – Panama
• Hernandia jamaicensis Britton & Harris – Jamaica
• Hernandia kunstleri King ex K.Heyne
• Hernandia labyrinthica Tuyama – New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Marianas
• Hernandia leucomphala (Hoffmanns.) Steud.
• Hernandia lychnifera Grayum & N.Zamora – Ecuador
• Hernandia mascarenensis (Meisn.) Kubitzki – Mauritius and Réunion
• Hernandia moerenhoutiana Guill. – Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoan Islands, Society Islands, Tubuai Islands, Niue, and Wallis and Futuna
• Hernandia nukuhivensis F.Br. – Marquesas Islands
• Hernandia nymphaeifolia (C.Presl) Kubitzki – Madagascar, Indian Ocean islands, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland), and South Pacific
• Hernandia obovata O.C.Schmidt – Haiti
• Hernandia olivacea Gillespie – Fiji
• Hernandia ovigera L. – Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, and South Pacific
  • Hernandia ovigera subsp. stokesii (F.Br.) J.Florence – Pitcairn Islands, Society Islands, and Tubuai Islands
• Hernandia papuana C.T.White
• Hernandia rostrata Kubitzki – Solomon Islands
• Hernandia samoensis Hochr.
• Hernandia sonora L. – Mexico and the Caribbean islands
• Hernandia stenura Standl. – southern Mexico, Central America, and Colombia
• Hernandia temarii Nadeaud – Society Islands (Tahiti)
• Hernandia voyronii Jum. – Madagascar
• Hernandia wendtii Espejo – central Mexico to Honduras

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hernandia.

• Taxonomy
• Hernandiaceae at the University of Hawaii
• links at CSDL, Texas Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Vegetation of the Montane Region of Savai'i, W. Arthur Whistler.
• PPP-Index Pflanzerneinkaufsfürer für Europa