Foetidia

Genus of trees

Foetidia
Foetidia mauritiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
Subfamily: Foetidioideae
Genus: Foetidia
Comm. ex Lam.

Foetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.[1][2]

Most authors place the genus in the family Lecythidaceae, the sole genus in the subfamily Foetidioideae, but some prefer to treat it as a distinct family, the Foetidiaceae.[3] It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.[4]

Species

Source:[4]

  1. Foetidia africana - Uzaramo District[5] in Tanzania
  2. Foetidia asymetrica - Madagascar
  3. Foetidia capuronii - Madagascar
  4. Foetidia clusioides - Madagascar
  5. Foetidia comorensis - Mayotte
  6. Foetidia cuneata - Madagascar
  7. Foetidia delphinensis - Madagascar
  8. Foetidia dracaenoides - Madagascar
  9. Foetidia macrocarpa - Madagascar
  10. Foetidia mauritiana - Mauritius, Réunion
  11. Foetidia obliqua - Pemba I, Madagascar
  12. Foetidia parviflora - Madagascar
  13. Foetidia pterocarpa - Madagascar
  14. Foetidia retusa - Madagascar
  15. Foetidia rodriguesiana - Rodrigues
  16. Foetidia rubescens - Madagascar
  17. Foetidia sambiranensis - Madagascar
  18. Foetidia vohemarensis - Madagascar

The wood of Foetidia mauritiana is one of several woods known as stinkwood because of its unpleasant smell.

References

  1. ^ Commerson, Philibert, ex Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. 1788. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2: 457 in French
  2. ^ Tropicos, Foetidia Comm. ex Lam
  3. ^ Foetidia Archived 2006-02-25 at the Wayback Machine (as Foetidiaceae) in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants. Archived December 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. ^ Geographic Names, Uzaramo District
Taxon identifiers
Foetidia
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