Munronia

Munronia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae.[2][3] Its native distribution is tropical and subtropical Asia.[1]

Munronia
Munronia pinnata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Meliaceae
Subfamily:	Melioideae
Genus:	Munronia Wight
Species[1]
Munronia breviflora (Ridl.) Mabb. & Muellner Munronia humilis (Blanco) Harms Munronia pauciflora (Pierre) Harms Munronia petiolata N.T.Cuong, D.T.Hoan & Mabb. Munronia pinnata (Wall.) W.Theob. Munronia unifoliolata Oliv. Munronia yinggelingensis R.J.Zhang, Y.S.Ye & F.W.Xing
Synonyms[1]
Philastrea Pierre

The name Munronia is a taxonomic patronym honoring the English botanist William Munro (1818 - 1880), a plant collector in India, Kashmir, and Barbados.[4] A taxonomic anagram derived from Munronia is Nurmonia, a confamilial genus synonym of Turraea.[5]

References

1. "Munronia Wight | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
2. Wight, Robert (1840). Illustrations of Indian botany :or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants, described in the author's prodromus florae peninsulae Indiae orientalis. v. 1 1840. Madras: published by J. B. Pharoah for the author.
3. Bennett, M. I. J. (1841). "Révision des genres Turraea and Munronia". Annales des sciences naturelles: Botanique (in French). Fortin, Masson et Cie. pp. 83–96.
4. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2012-05-03). CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set). CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-8044-5.
5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. M66. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5.