{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = Acunaeanthus tinifolius.jpg |image_caption = |display_parents = 3 |genus = Acunaeanthus |species = tinifolius |parent_authority = Borhidi, Komlodi & Moncada |authority = (Griseb.) Borhidi, Komlodi & Moncada |synonyms ={{species list |Mazaea tinifolia|(Griseb.) Alain |Neomazaea tinifolia|(Griseb.) Urb. |Rondeletia tinifolia|Griseb. |Exostema leonis|Standl.}} |synonyms_ref =<ref name=POWO/> }}
'''''Acunaeanthus''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family of ''Rubiaceae''. The genus contains only one known species; '''''Acunaeanthus tinifolius''''', which is endemic to Cuba.<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |title=''Acunaeanthus'' Borhidi, Komlódi & Moncada {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298325-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
The genus name of ''Acunaeanthus'' is in honour of Julián Acuña Galé (1900–1973), a Cuban botanist who served as director of the Agricultural Experimental Station in Santiago de Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''tinifolius'' with leaves like ''Laurustinus'' (''Viburnum tinus'').<ref>Hugh F. Glen {{google books|eMgaXGsBEWIC|Sappi What's in a Name: The Meanings of the Botanical Names of Trees (2004)|page=69}}</ref> Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. Vol.26 on page 282 (1980, published in 1981).<ref name="POWO"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links== *[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/rubiaceae/ World Checklist of Rubiaceae]
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Category:Rondeletieae Category:Monotypic Rubiaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Cuba Category:Plants described in 1980 Category:Taxa named by August Grisebach
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