Helmholtzia

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title: "Helmholtzia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["commelinales-genera", "philydraceae"] description: "Genus of flowering plants" topic_path: "general/commelinales-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtzia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flowering plants ::

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• Orthothylax (Hook.f.) Skottsb.
• Philydrum section Helmholtzia (F.Muell.) Baill.
• Philydrum section Orthothylax Hook. f.

Helmholtzia is a small genus of flowering plants described in 1866. It includes species native to Australia (New South Wales and Queensland), Indonesia (Maluku Province), and New Guinea.

The genus was named for Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist, by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.

; Species

• Helmholtzia acorifolia F.Muell. - NE Queensland
• Helmholtzia glaberrima (Hook.f.) Caruel - Mount Warning region in SE Queensland + NE New South Wales
• Helmholtzia novoguineensis (K.Krause) Skottsb. - New Guinea, Maluku

References

References

1. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034233 Tropicos, ''Orthothylax'' (Hook. f.) Skottsb.]
2. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/761920#page/211/mode/1up Mueller, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von. 1866. Fragmenta Phytographiæ Australiæ 5: 202-203] in Latin
3. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40023064 Tropicos, ''Helmholtzia'' F. Muell.]
4. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew".
5. [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Helmholtzia PlantNET: New South Wales Flora online: ''Helmholtzia'']
6. [http://www.anbg.gov.au/friends/archives/articles/articlesnov03.html Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens: Newsletter November 2003] {{webarchive. link. (2006-09-02)
7. Burkhardt L. 2016: Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen. Index of Eponymic Plant Names. Index de Noms Eponymes des Genres Botaniques. Eine botanische • historische • biographische Recherche zu Widmungen in den Pflanzengattungen. – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. {{ISBN. 978-3-946292-10-4

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