''Renealmia'' is a

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Zingiberaceae Zingiberaceae () or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Af ...

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In Colombia, it is used to treat snakebite. Bracts and leaves can serve as phytotelmata, retaining small quantities of water that offer habitat for other organisms.Hayford, B., T. Förster, V. Patel, & C. S. Chaboo. 2021. Aquatic Diptera associated with Neotropical Zingiberales phytotelmata (Diptera). Journal of Natural History 54:43-44, 2815-2838.

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include: * '' Renealmia acreana'' Maas - Brazil (Acre State) * ''

Renealmia africana ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indig ...

'' Benth. - western and central Africa from Togo to Angola * '' Renealmia alborosea'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Cameroon * ''

Renealmia alpinia ''Renealmia alpinia'' is a flowering plant species native to the Americas, where it grows from southern Mexico through much of South America, though not in the Southern Cone. It can also be found on several Caribbean islands. In Quechua it is ...

'' (Rottb.) Maas - Latin America and the West Indies from Veracruz and Puerto Rico south to Bolivia * '' Renealmia alticola'' Maas - Colombia * '' Renealmia angustifolia'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Espírito Santo * '' Renealmia aromatica'' (Aubl.) Griseb. - Latin America and the West Indies from Veracruz and Puerto Rico south to Bolivia * '' Renealmia asplundii'' Maas - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru * '' Renealmia aurantifera'' Maas - Ecuador * ''

Renealmia batangana ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indigenous medical trea ...

'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Cameroon * ''

Renealmia battenbergiana ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indig ...

'' Cummins ex Baker - Ghana, Ivory Coast * '' Renealmia brachythyrsa'' Loes. - Cameroon * '' Renealmia bracteata'' De Wild. & T.Durand - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Uganda * '' Renealmia brasiliensis'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Brazil * '' Renealmia breviscapa'' Poepp. & Endl. - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia * '' Renealmia cabrae'' De Wild. & T.Durand - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Gabon, Cameroon * '' Renealmia caucana'' Maas - Colombia * '' Renealmia cernua'' (Sw. ex Roem. & Schult.) J.F.Macbr. - Latin America from Chiapas to Peru * '' Renealmia chalcochlora'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Colombia * '' Renealmia chiriquina'' Standl. - Panamá * '' Renealmia choroniensis'' Maas - Veenzuela * '' Renealmia chrysotricha'' Petersen - Rio de Janeiro * '' Renealmia cincinnata'' (K.Schum.) T.Durand & Schinz - west-central Africa from Ivory Coast to Congo-Brazzaville * '' Renealmia concinna'' Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia * '' Renealmia congesta'' Maas - Costa Rica, Panama * '' Renealmia congoensis'' Gagnep. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Gabon, Cameroon, Cabinda * '' Renealmia congolana'' De Wild. & T.Durand - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania * '' Renealmia costaricensis'' Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Renealmia cuatrecasasii'' Maas - Colombia, Ecuador * '' Renealmia cylindrica'' Maas & H.Maas - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Renealmia densiflora'' Urb. - Haiti * '' Renealmia densispica'' Koechlin - Gabon, Cameroon * '' Renealmia dermatopetala'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Brazil, Bolivia * '' Renealmia dewevrei'' De Wild. & T.Durand - Zaïre * '' Renealmia dolichocalyx'' Maas - Ecuador * '' Renealmia dressleri'' Maas - Panama * '' Renealmia engleri'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia * '' Renealmia erythrocarpa'' Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua * '' Renealmia ferruginea'' Maas - Colombia * ''

Renealmia floribunda ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indig ...

'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Trinidad and northern South America * ''

Renealmia foliifera ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indigenous medical trea ...

'' Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia * '' Renealmia fragilis'' Maas - Colombia, Ecuador * '' Renealmia guianensis'' Maas - Guianas, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Venezuelan Antilles * '' Renealmia heleniae'' Maas - Panama * '' Renealmia jamaicensis'' (Gaertn.) Horan. - Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico * '' Renealmia krukovii'' Maas - Colombia, Peru, Brazil * '' Renealmia laxa'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Cameroon * '' Renealmia ligulata'' Maas - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Renealmia longifolia'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Liberia, Ivory Coast * '' Renealmia lucida'' Maas - Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Renealmia macrocolea'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Togo, Cabinda, Cameroon, Gabon * '' Renealmia maculata'' Stapf in H.Johnston - Liberia, Ivory Coast * '' Renealmia mannii'' Hook.f. - Bioko * '' Renealmia matogrossensis'' Maas - Mato Grosso * '' Renealmia mexicana'' Klotzsch ex Petersen - southern Mexico, Central America, Venezuela * '' Renealmia microcalyx'' Maas & H.Maas - Brazil, Venezuela * '' Renealmia monosperma'' Miq. - widespread from Panama east to the Guianas and south to Bolivia * ''

Renealmia nicolaioides ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indig ...

'' Loes. - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil * '' Renealmia oligosperma'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Ecuador * '' Renealmia oligotricha'' Maas - Ecuador * '' Renealmia orinocensis'' Rusby - Venezuela, Guianas * '' Renealmia pacifica'' (Maas) Maas & H.Maas - southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador * ''

Renealmia pallida ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indigenous medical trea ...

'' Maas - Peru * '' Renealmia petasites'' Gagnep. - Brazil * '' Renealmia pirrensis'' Maas & H.Maas - Panama * '' Renealmia pluriplicata'' Maas - Colombia, Ecuador, Central America * '' Renealmia polyantha'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Gabon, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville * '' Renealmia polypus'' Gagnep. - Gabon, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Cabinda * '' Renealmia puberula'' Steyerm. - Colombia, Ecuador * ''

Renealmia purpurea ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indigenous medical trea ...

'' Maas & H.Maas - Peru * '' Renealmia pycnostachys'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Minas Gerais (probably extinct) * ''

Renealmia pyramidalis ''Renealmia'' is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Zingiberaceae. Its members are native to tropical Africa and tropical America (Latin America and the West Indies). In Peru, fruits and tubers are sources of indigenous dyes. and indig ...

'' (Lam.) Maas - Lesser Antilles * '' Renealmia racemosa'' Poepp. & Endl. - Peru, Bolivia * '' Renealmia reticulata'' Gagnep. - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro * '' Renealmia sancti-thomae'' I.M.Turner - São Tomé * '' Renealmia scaposa'' Maas - Costa Rica * '' Renealmia sessilifolia'' Gagnep. - Ecuador * '' Renealmia stellulata'' Steyerm. - Ecuador, Peru * '' Renealmia stenostachys'' K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler - Cameroon * '' Renealmia striata'' (Stokes) Govaerts ex Maas - Jamaica * '' Renealmia thyrsoidea'' (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl. - Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, Panama, Costa Rica * '' Renealmia urbaniana'' Loes. - Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia * '' Renealmia vallensis'' Maas - Colombia * '' Renealmia variegata'' Maas & H.Maas - Ecuador, Colombia, Panama * '' Renealmia wurdackii'' Maas - Peru, Ecuador

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