# Bikkia

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***Bikkia*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Rubiaceae](/source/Rubiaceae). It is [native](/source/Indigenous_(ecology)) to the [Philippines](/source/Philippines), the [Maluku](/source/Maluku_(province)) region of eastern [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea) and the western [Pacific](/source/Pacific_Islands) ([Melanesia](/source/Melanesia) and [Micronesia](/source/Micronesia)).[1] The genus was [named](/source/Botanical_name) by [Caspar Reinwardt](/source/Caspar_Georg_Carl_Reinwardt) in 1825.[2] Seven of the [New Caledonian](/source/New_Caledonia) species previously included in *Bikkia* were transferred to a separate genus, *[Thiollierea](/source/Thiollierea)*, in 2011 based on molecular and morphological information.[3]

## Species

- *[Bikkia bridgeana](/source/Bikkia_bridgeana)* F.Muell. - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea)
- *[Bikkia commerconiana](/source/Bikkia_commerconiana)* [K.Schum.](/source/Karl_Moritz_Schumann) - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea)
- *[Bikkia gaudichaudiana](/source/Bikkia_gaudichaudiana)* Brongn. - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea)
- *[Bikkia guilloviana](/source/Bikkia_guilloviana)* Brongn. - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea)
- *[Bikkia longicarpa](/source/Bikkia_longicarpa)* [Valeton](/source/Theodoric_Valeton) - [Mariana Islands](/source/Mariana_Islands)
- *[Bikkia moluccana](/source/Bikkia_moluccana)* Suess. ex Troll & Dragend. - [Maluku](/source/Maluku_(province))
- *[Bikkia palauensis](/source/Bikkia_palauensis)* [Valeton](/source/Theodoric_Valeton) - [Palau](/source/Palau)
- *[Bikkia pancheri](/source/Bikkia_pancheri)* (Brongn.) [Guillaumin](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Guillaumin) - [Bismarck Archipelago](/source/Bismarck_Archipelago), [Solomon Islands](/source/Solomon_Islands), [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia), [Vanuatu](/source/Vanuatu)
- *[Bikkia philippinensis](/source/Bikkia_philippinensis)* [Valeton](/source/Theodoric_Valeton) - [Cebu](/source/Cebu)
- *[Bikkia tetrandra](/source/Bikkia_tetrandra)* ([L.f.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus_the_Younger)) A.Rich. - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea), [Solomon Islands](/source/Solomon_Islands), [Fiji](/source/Fiji), [Niue](/source/Niue), [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia), [Tonga](/source/Tonga), [Vanuatu](/source/Vanuatu), [Micronesia](/source/Micronesia), [Wallis-Futuna Islands](/source/Wallis_%26_Futuna_Islands)

## References

1. Mabberley DJ (2008). *Mabberley's Plant Book*. 3 ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4.

1. Reinwardt CGC (1825). *Sylloge Plantarum Novarum Itemque Minus Cognitarum a Praestantissimis Botanicis adhuc Viventibus Collecta et a Societate Regia Botanica Ratisbonensi Edita*. Vol. 2. Brenk CE (ed.). p. 8.

1. [Barrabé L., Mouly A., Lowry II P. P. & Munzinger J. 2011. — Reinstatement of the endemic New Caledonian genus *Thiollierea* Montrouz. (Rubiaceae) necessitated by the polyphyly of *Bikkia* Reinw. as currently circumscribed. Adansonia, sér. 3, 33 (1): 115–134.](http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/a2011n1a8)

## External links

- [*Bikkia* in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae](http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Bikkia)

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