''Reineckea'' is a genus of plants in the

Nolinoideae Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family (biology), family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It used to be treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae sensu lato, s.l. The family name is derived from the Binomial nomenclature, gener ...

. Several species names have been proposed within the genus, but only one is widely accepted: ''Reineckea carnea'', native to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Ohwi, J. (1984). Flora of Japan (in English): 1-1067. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Etymology

''Reineckea'' is named for J. Reinecke, a

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grower of tropical plants.Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. (hardback), (paperback). p 328

References

Nolinoideae Monotypic Asparagaceae genera Flora of China Flora of Japan Taxa named by Henry Cranke Andrews {{Asparagaceae-stub