''Reicheella'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s belonging to the family

Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactacea ...

. It has a synonym of ''Bryopsis'' , and only contains one known species, Reicheella andicola (Phil.) Pax Its native range is northern Chile. The genus name of ''Reicheella'' is in honour of

Karl Friedrich Reiche Karl Friedrich Reiche ( es, Carlos Reiche, October 31, 1860 – February 26, 1929) was a German botanist who worked as a university professor in Chile and Mexico. Life Reiche was born in Dresden and earned his doctorate in 1885 in Leipzig. He ...

(1860–1929), a German botanist who worked as a university professor in Chile and Mexico. The Latin

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

of ''andicola'' is a compound word; with 'Andi-' meaning the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

and also the Latin ''cola'' for "dweller" (from ''colere'' "to dwell"). It was first described and published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. Vol.2 on page 21 in 1900.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q16868050, from2=Q9067761 Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae genera Plants described in 1900 Flora of northern Chile