Marquesia

{{Short description|Genus of trees}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |taxon = Marquesia |authority = Gilg |synonyms = {{species list |Trillesanthus |Pierre |Trillesianthus |Pierre ex A.Chev.}} }} '''''Marquesia''''' is a genus of plant in family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Africa and can be found in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Marquesia'' Gilg {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16415-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 July 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

It contains the following species:<ref name="POWO"/> * ''Marquesia acuminata'' {{small|(Gilg) R.E.Fr}} * ''Marquesia excelsa'' {{small|R.E.Fr.}} * ''Marquesia macroura'' {{small|Gilg}}

The genus name of ''Marquesia'' is in honour of L. Marques, who was a Portuguese plant collector hunting in Angola and Mozambique.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

The genus was circumscribed by Ernst Friedrich Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. vol.40 on page 485 in 1908.<ref name="POWO"/>

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Category:Dipterocarpaceae Category:Dipterocarpaceae genera Category:Flora of South Tropical Africa Category:Flora of Equatorial Guinea Category:Flora of Gabon Category:Plants described in 1908 Category:Taxa named by Ernest Friedrich Gilg