{{Short description|Genus of trees}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Foetidia mauritiana leaves.jpg |image_caption = ''Foetidia mauritiana'' |taxon = Foetidia |authority = Comm. ex Lam. }}
'''''Foetidia''''' is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/721111#page/459/mode/1up Commerson, Philibert, ex Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. 1788. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2: 457] in French</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40010074 Tropicos, ''Foetidia'' Comm. ex Lam]</ref>
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.<ref>[http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/foetidia.htm ''Foetidia''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225181455/http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/foetidia.htm |date=2006-02-25 }} (as Foetidiaceae) in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213041459/http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ |date=December 13, 2010 }}</ref> It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.<ref name="m">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=84636 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>
== Species ==
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{{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Foetidia africana'' - Uzaramo District<ref>[http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-3543021&fid=6433&c=tanzania Geographic Names, Uzaramo District]</ref> in Tanzania # ''Foetidia asymetrica'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia capuronii'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia clusioides'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia comorensis'' - Mayotte # ''Foetidia cuneata'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia delphinensis'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia dracaenoides'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia macrocarpa'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia mauritiana'' - Mauritius, Réunion # ''Foetidia obliqua'' - Pemba I, Madagascar # ''Foetidia parviflora'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia pterocarpa'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia retusa'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia rodriguesiana'' - Rodrigues # ''Foetidia rubescens'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia sambiranensis'' - Madagascar # ''Foetidia vohemarensis'' - Madagascar }}
The wood of ''Foetidia mauritiana'' is one of several woods known as stinkwood because of its unpleasant smell.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q3074797}}
Category:Lecythidaceae Category:Lecythidaceae genera Category:Flora of the Afrotropical realm Category:Taxa named by Philibert Commerson
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