{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = RMM 475 Montiniaceae-Kaliphoraceae Grevea madagascariensis Baill. Maintirano, Phot.PG 04 03 08 IMG 3036.JPG |image_caption =Grevea madagascariensis |taxon = Grevea |authority = Baill. }}
'''''Grevea''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Montiniaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=Grevea Baill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37049-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to the countries of Liberia, Republic of the Congo, south-eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Grevea'' is in honour of Mr. Grevé (d. 1895), French naturalist and rancher on Madagascar, who collected plants and fossils.<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> It was first described and published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris vol.1 on page 420 in 1884.<ref name="POWO" />
Known species, according to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Grevea bosseri'' {{small|Letouzey}} – Liberia and Republic of the Congo *''Grevea eggelingii'' {{small|Milne-Redh.}} – Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique *''Grevea madagascariensis'' {{small|Baill.}} – Madagascar
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Category:Solanales Category:Solanales genera Category:Plants described in 1884 Category:Flora of East Tropical Africa Category:Flora of Madagascar