{{Short description|Genus of shrubs}} {{Speciesbox | image = Lebronnecia kokioides - Koko Crater Botanical Garden - IMG 2266.JPG | status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Florence, J. |date=1998 |title=''Lebronnecia kokioides'' |volume=1998 |article-number=e.T30398A9537122 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T30398A9537122.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | genus = Lebronnecia | parent_authority = Fosberg & Sachet (1966)<ref name=GRIN>{{GRIN genus | name = ''Lebronnecia'' | id = 6584 | accessdate = 30 April 2017}}</ref> | species = kokioides | authority = Fosberg & Sachet (1966)<ref name=TPL>{{ThePlantList | id = kew-2494195 | taxon = Lebronnecia kokioides | accessdate = 30 April 2017}}</ref> }}
'''''Lebronnecia''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae.<ref>Wendel, J. F., Brubaker, C. L., & Seelanan, T. (2010). [http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/WendelJ/pdfs/Wendeletal2010theOriginandEvolutionofGossypium.pdf The origin and evolution of ''Gossypium''.] In: ''Physiology of Cotton'' (pp. 1-18). Springer Netherlands.</ref> The sole species is '''''Lebronnecia kokioides''''', a very rare flowering shrub.
==Distribution== Only a few hundred specimens are known to exist. The plant was first described in 1966, after a single tree with a few seedlings was discovered on Tahuata, an island in the Marquesas group of French Polynesia that had been severely deforested by livestock: cattle, goats, horses, and pigs.
Further specimens were later found on the nearby island of Mohotani, uninhabited by humans, but similarly deforested by sheep, who seem to avoid eating the plant.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hibiscus-malvaceae.blogspot.com/2008/05/lebronnecia-kokioides.html |title=Hibiscus & Malvaceae: Cultivation, Conservation, Education: ''Lebronnecia kokioides'' |date=11 May 2009 |access-date=2011-01-23 }}</ref>
It is now being cultivated in Hawaii.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marinelifephotography.com/flowers/malvaceae/malvaceae.htm |title=MarinelifePhotography.com: Plants: Malvaceae |author=Keoki & Yuko Stender |access-date=2011-01-23 }}</ref>
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Category:Gossypieae Category:Monotypic Malvaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of the Marquesas Islands Category:Plants described in 1966 Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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