# Majidea

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Starr 070221-4747 Majidea zanquebarica.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Majidea zanquebarica](/source/Majidea_zanquebarica)''
|taxon = Majidea
|authority = [Kirk](/source/Thomas_Kirk_(botanist)) ex [Oliv.](/source/Daniel_Oliver_(botanist))
}}
'''''Majidea''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s belonging to the family [Sapindaceae](/source/Sapindaceae).<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Majidea'' Kirk ex Oliv. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36476-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

Its native range is [Tropical Africa](/source/Tropical_Africa) and Madagascar. It is found in the countries of Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaïre.<ref name="POWO" />

The genus name of ''Majidea'' is in honour of [Majid bin Said of Zanzibar](/source/Majid_bin_Said_of_Zanzibar) (c. 1834 – 1870), who was the first Sultan of Zanzibar.<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> 
It was first described and published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. Vol.11 on table 1097 in 1871.<ref name="POWO"/>

==Known species==
According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" />
*''[Majidea fosteri](/source/Majidea_fosteri)'' {{small|(Sprague) Radlk.}}
*''[Majidea zanguebarica](/source/Majidea_zanguebarica)'' {{small|Kirk ex Oliv.}}

==References==
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Category:Dodonaeoideae
Category:Sapindaceae genera
Category:Plants described in 1871

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