Soejatmia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae. It just contains one species, Soejatmia ridleyi (Gamble) K.M.Wong

Its native range is from the peninsula of Thailand to Malaya.

Soejatmia

The genus name of Soejatmia is in honour of Soejatmi Dransfield (b. 1939), an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and also honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Latin specific epithet of ridleyi refers to Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855 – 1956), was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.48 on pages 530-532 in 1993.

Soejatmia

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.

Soejatmia

References

Bambusoideae

Bambusoideae genera

Monotypic Poaceae genera

Plants described in 1993

Flora of Thailand

Flora of Malaya