Foetidia

Foetidia
Foetidia mauritiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
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[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 (as Foetidiaceae) in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.
  4. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. ↑ Geographic Names, Uzaramo District


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