{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Eriolaena quinquelocularis (7198010514).jpg |image_caption = ''Eriolaena quinquelocularis'' |taxon = Eriolaena |authority = DC. (1823)<ref name = powo/> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = *''Dendroleandria'' {{small|Arènes (1956)}} * ''Eriochlaena'' <small>(orth. var.)</small> *''Helmiopsiella'' {{small|Arènes (1956)}} *''Helmiopsis'' {{small|H.Perrier (1945)}} *''Jackia'' <small>Spreng. nom. illeg.</small> *''Microchlaena'' <small>Wall ex Wight & Arn. (1833), nom. superfl.</small> *''Schillera'' <small>Rchb. (1828)</small> *''Wallichia'' <small>DC. (1823) (''non'' Roxb.: preoccupied)</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38694-1 ''Eriolaena'' DC.]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 19 June 2023.</ref> }}
'''''Eriolaena''''' is a genus of flowering plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included now in the recently expanded Malvaceae.<ref name=hinsley>Hinsley, S. R. (2007). [http://www.malvaceae.info/Synonymy/Supra.php?order=Rank&citation=off Synonymy of Malvaceae].</ref> The genus is distributed in Asia and eastern Africa, from southern China through Indochina to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and coastal Mozambique.<ref name = powo/><ref name=foc>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112048 ''Eriolaena''.] Flora of China. eFloras.</ref><ref name=dorr2018>Dorr LJ, Wurdack KJ (2018) [https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.111.29303 A new disjunct species of Eriolaena (Malvaceae, Dombeyoideae) from Continental Africa].</ref>
These plants are trees or shrubs. They usually have single or paired white or yellow flowers, but some species have larger inflorescences. The fruit is a hard capsule with winged seeds.<ref name=foc/> The winged seeds make the genus distinctive in its family.<ref name=malv>[http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Eriolaena/Eriolaena.php The ''Eriolaena'' Page.] Malvaceae.info.</ref>
The former Madagascan genera ''Helmiopsiella'' and ''Helmiopsis'' are now considered synonyms of ''Eriolaena''.<ref name = powo/> These genera were named in honour of C. Helm, German clergyman in Berlin and amateur botanist.<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 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>
==Species== 27 species are currently accepted.<ref name = powo/> * ''Eriolaena barnettiae'' {{small|Dorr}} – Madagascar * ''Eriolaena bernieri'' {{small|(Baill.) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena boivinii'' {{small|(Baill.) Dorr}} – northwestern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena calcicola'' {{small|(Arènes) Dorr}} – northwestern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena candollei'' <small>Wall.</small> – India and Bangladesh, Indochina, southern China * ''Eriolaena cheekii'' {{small|Dorr}} – Madagascar * ''Eriolaena ctenostegia'' {{small|(Hochr.) Dorr}} – western Madagascar * ''Eriolaena glaberrima'' {{small|(Arènes) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena hily'' {{small|(Arènes) Dorr}} – southwestern and southern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena hookeriana'' <small>Wight & Arn.</small> – India and Sri Lanka * ''Eriolaena leandrii'' {{small|(Hochr.) Dorr}} – Madagascar * ''Eriolaena linearifolia'' {{small|(Hochr.) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena lushingtonii'' <small>Dunn</small> – Eastern Ghats (southern India) * ''Eriolaena madagascariensis'' {{small|(Arènes) Dorr}} – Madagascar * ''Eriolaena margaritae'' {{small|Dorr}} – Madagascar * ''Eriolaena parvifolia'' {{small|(Appleq.) Dorr}} – southwestern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena poissonii'' {{small|(Arènes) Dorr}} – northwestern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena polyandra'' {{small|(Appleq.) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena pseudopopulus'' {{small|(Baill.) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena quinquelocularis'' <small>(Wight & Arn.) Drury</small> – India and Yunnan (China) * ''Eriolaena richardii'' {{small|(Baill.) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena rigida'' {{small|(Baill.) Dorr}} – Madagascar * ''Eriolaena rulkensii''<ref name=dorr2018 /> <small>Dorr</small> – northern Mozambique * ''Eriolaena spectabilis'' <small>(DC.) Planch. ex Mast.</small> – Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan), northern Myanmar, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi (China) * ''Eriolaena sphaerocarpa'' {{small|(L.C.Barnett) Dorr}} – northern Madagascar * ''Eriolaena stocksii'' {{small|Hook.f. & Thomson ex Mast.}} – western and northeastern India * ''Eriolaena wallichii'' <small>DC.</small> – Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh (India), northern Myanmar, Yunnan (China)
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Category:Eriolaena Category:Malvaceae genera Category:Flora of the Indomalayan realm Category:Flora of Mozambique Category:Flora of Madagascar Category:Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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