Hernandia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hernandiaceae. It was named after the Spanish botanist Francisco Hernández de Toledo.Quattrocchi, U. Hernandia. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. CRC Press, 2012. Page 1962.
Species , 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 – 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
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Taxonomy Hernandiaceae at the University of Hawaii links at CSDL, Texas Vegetation of the Montane Region of Savai'i, W. Arthur Whistler. PPP-Index Pflanzerneinkaufsfürer für Europa