''Pollia'' is a

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flowering A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism ...

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

s in the family

Commelinaceae Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of five families in the order Commelinales and by far the largest of these with about 731 kn ...

, first described in 1781. It is widespread through the Old World Tropics:

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, southern

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, northern

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, etc. There is also one species endemic to Panama.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> ; Species * '' Pollia americana'' Faden - Panama * '' Pollia bracteata'' K.Schum. - Tanzania * ''

Pollia condensata ''Pollia condensata'', sometimes called the marble berry, is a perennial herbaceous plant with stoloniferous stems and hard, dry, shiny, round, metallic blue fruit. It is found in forested regions of Africa. The blue colour of the fruit, created ...

'' C.B.Clarke - much of tropical Africa * '' Pollia crispata'' (R.Br.) Benth. - Queensland, New South Wales * '' Pollia gracilis'' C.B.Clarke - Comoros, Madagascar * '' Pollia hasskarlii'' R.S.Rao - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, Java * '' Pollia × horsfieldii'' C.B.Clarke - Java ''(P. secundiflora × P. thyrsiflora)'' * '' Pollia japonica'' Thunb. - China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam * '' Pollia macrobracteata'' D.Y.Hong - Guangxi * '' Pollia macrophylla'' (R.Br.) Benth. - Queensland, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Vietnam * '' Pollia mannii'' C.B.Clarke - from Ivory Coast to Tanzania + Angola * '' Pollia miranda'' (H.Lév.) H.Hara - China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan * '' Pollia papuana'' Ridl. - New Guinea * '' Pollia pentasperma'' C.B.Clarke - Assam * '' Pollia sambiranensis'' H.Perrier - Madagascar * '' Pollia secundiflora'' (Blume) Bakh.f. - China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, New Caledonia * '' Pollia subumbellata'' C.B.Clarke - southern China, Himalayas, Peninsular Malaysia * '' Pollia sumatrana'' Hassk. - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines * '' Pollia thyrsiflora'' (Blume) Steud. - southern China, Assam, Southeast Asia * '' Pollia verticillata'' Hallier f. - New Guinea * '' Pollia × zollingeri'' (Hassk.) C.B.Clarke - Java ''(P. hasskarlii × P. secundiflora)''

References

Commelinaceae Commelinales genera {{Commelinales-stub