# Lethedon

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{{Short description|Genus of shrubs}}
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|image =
|taxon = Lethedon
|authority = Biehler (1807)
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 15, see text
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Lethedon'' Biehler |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21438-1 |website=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=15 September 2024}}</ref>
|synonyms = 
*''Kaernbachia'' {{small|Kuntze (1891)}}
*''Microsemma'' {{small|Labill. (1825)}}
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/>
}}

'''''Lethedon''''' is a genus of shrubs in the [Thymelaeaceae](/source/Thymelaeaceae) family native to [Queensland](/source/Queensland), [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia), and [Vanuatu](/source/Vanuatu).<ref name = powo/><ref>Rogers, Z. S. 2009. A World Checklist of Thymelaeaceae (version 1). Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. [first posted 9 July 2009]</ref> It is related to ''[Arnhemia](/source/Arnhemia_(plant))'', ''[Deltaria](/source/Deltaria)'', ''[Gonystylus](/source/Gonystylus)'' and ''[Solmsia](/source/Solmsia)''.<ref>Beaumont, A. J., T. J. Edwards, J. Manning, O. Maurin, M. Rautenbach, M. C. Motsi, M. F. Fay, M. W. Chase, and M. Van Der Bank. (2009) Gnidia (Thymelaeaceae) Is Not Monophyletic: Taxonomic Implications for Thymelaeoideae and a Partial New Generic Taxonomy for Gnidia.” Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (4): 402–17.</ref>

==Species==
15 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/>
*''[Lethedon balansae](/source/Lethedon_balansae)'' {{small|(Baill.) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon calleana](/source/Lethedon_calleana)'' {{small|(Guillaumin) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon cernua](/source/Lethedon_cernua)'' {{small|(Baill.) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon ciliaris](/source/Lethedon_ciliaris)'' {{small|(Baill.) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon comptonii](/source/Lethedon_comptonii)'' {{small|(Baker f.) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon cordatoretusa](/source/Lethedon_cordatoretusa)'' {{small|Aymonin}}
*''[Lethedon leratii](/source/Lethedon_leratii)'' {{small|(Guillaumin) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon microphylla](/source/Lethedon_microphylla)'' {{small|(Guillaumin) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon oblonga](/source/Lethedon_oblonga)'' {{small|(Schltr.) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon ovata](/source/Lethedon_ovata)'' {{small|(Guillaumin) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon salicifolia](/source/Lethedon_salicifolia)'' {{small|(Labill.) Aymonin}}
*''[Lethedon setosa](/source/Lethedon_setosa)'' {{small|(C.T.White) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon sphaerocarpa](/source/Lethedon_sphaerocarpa)'' {{small|(Baill. ex Guillaumin) Kosterm.}}
*''[Lethedon tannensis](/source/Lethedon_tannensis)'' {{small|Biehler}}
*''[Lethedon thornei](/source/Lethedon_thornei)'' {{small|(Guillaumin) Aymonin}}

==References==
{{Wikispecies|Angiosperms}}
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Category:Octolepidoideae
Category:Thymelaeaceae genera
Category:Taxa described in 1807

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