Munronia

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants in the chinaberry family Meliaceae}}

{{Automatic taxobox | image = Munronia pinnata at Periya 2014.jpg | image_caption = ''Munronia pinnata'' | taxon = Munronia | authority = Wight | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name="POWO"/> | subdivision = * ''Munronia breviflora'' (Ridl.) Mabb. & Muellner * ''Munronia humilis'' (Blanco) Harms * ''Munronia pauciflora'' (Pierre) Harms * ''Munronia petiolata'' N.T.Cuong, D.T.Hoan & Mabb. * ''Munronia pinnata'' (Wall.) W.Theob. * ''Munronia unifoliolata'' Oliv. * ''Munronia yinggelingensis'' R.J.Zhang, Y.S.Ye & F.W.Xing | synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO"/> | synonyms = * ''Philastrea'' Pierre }}

'''''Munronia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae.<ref name="Wight1840"/><ref name="Bennett1841"/> Its native distribution is tropical and subtropical Asia.<ref name="POWO"/>

The name ''Munronia'' is a taxonomic patronym honoring the English botanist William Munro (1818 - 1880), a plant collector in India, Kashmir, and Barbados.<ref name="Quattrocchi2012" /> A taxonomic anagram derived from ''Munronia'' is ''Nurmonia'', a confamilial genus synonym of ''Turraea''.<ref name="Burkhardt2018"/>

== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Bennett1841">{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=M. I. J.|section=Révision des genres ''Turraea'' and ''Munronia''|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWMVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA83|title=Annales des sciences naturelles: Botanique|date=1841|pages=83–96|publisher=Fortin, Masson et Cie|language=fr}}</ref> <ref name="Burkhardt2018">{{Cite book |last=Burkhardt |first=Lotte |title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée |date=2018-06-06 |publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin |page=M66 |isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 |language=de |doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |s2cid=187926901 }}</ref> <ref name="POWO">{{Cite web|title=''Munronia'' Wight {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26792-1|access-date=2020-06-14|website=Plants of the World Online}}</ref> <ref name="Quattrocchi2012">{{Cite book|last=Quattrocchi|first=Umberto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC_lAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2576|title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set)|date=2012-05-03|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-8044-5|language=en}}</ref> <ref name="Wight1840">{{Cite book|last=Wight|first=Robert|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39609|title=Illustrations of Indian botany :or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants, described in the author's prodromus florae peninsulae Indiae orientalis|date=1840|publisher=published by J. B. Pharoah for the author|volume=v. 1 1840|location=Madras}}</ref> }}

Category:Meliaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1839 Category:Meliaceae