Foetidia

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

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.

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 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. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. Geographic Names, Uzaramo District
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