{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Speciesbox | image = Mathurina penduliflora, Conservatoire botanique national de Brest 03.jpg | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | genus = Mathurina | parent_authority = Balf.f. | species = penduliflora | authority = Balf.f. }}
'''''Mathurina penduliflora''''' is the sole member of the monotypic genus ''Mathurina'', of flowering plants.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=Mathurina Balf.f. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39584-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
== Description == ''Mathurina penduliflora'' is a tree native to the Rodrigues Island.<ref name="POWO" />
=== Morphology === It grows 4 - 12 meters tall, young leaves are linear, mature leaves are obovate, and it has white hairless homostylous flowers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Order Malpighiales |url=https://taxateca.com/ordenmalpighiales.html |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=taxateca.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shore |first1=Joel S. |last2=Arbo |first2=Maria M. |last3=Fernández |first3=Aveliano |date=2006 |title=Breeding system variation, genetics and evolution in the Turneraceae |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01807.x |journal=New Phytologist |language=en |volume=171 |issue=3 |pages=539–551 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01807.x |issn=0028-646X |pmid=16866957 |hdl-access=free |hdl=11336/41821}}</ref> Heterophylly has been recorded in the genus.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Balfour |first=Is. Bayley |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1879.0035 |title=Botany of Rodriguez |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |year=1897 |volume=168 |pages=321 |doi=10.1098/rstl.1879.0035 |s2cid=186212545|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Taxonomy == Isolation of tetraphyllin B and volkenin from ''M. penduliflora'' support its classification as a member of Turneroideae.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wellendorph |first1=Petrine |last2=Clausen |first2=Vicki |last3=Jørgensen |first3=Lise Bolt |last4=Jaroszewski |first4=Jerzy W |date=2001 |title=Cyclopentanoids of Mathurina penduliflora |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0305197800000910 |journal=Biochemical Systematics and Ecology |language=en |volume=29 |issue=6 |pages=649–651 |doi=10.1016/S0305-1978(00)00091-0 |pmid=11336813|bibcode=2001BioSE..29..649W |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Distribution == ''M. penduliflora'' is only found on the Rodrigues Island.<ref name="POWO" />
== Conservation status == As of 2024, ''M. penduliflora'' has not been given a conservation status. thumb|1879 diagram of ''M. penduliflora''
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Category:Passifloraceae Category:Passifloraceae genera Category:Monotypic Malpighiales genera Category:Endemic flora of Rodrigues