# Munronia

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

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

'''''Munronia''''' is a genus of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the family [Meliaceae](/source/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](/source/Patronym_(taxonomy)) honoring the English botanist [William Munro](/source/William_Munro_(botanist)) (1818 - 1880), a plant collector in India, Kashmir, and Barbados.<ref name="Quattrocchi2012" /> A [taxonomic anagram](/source/List_of_taxa_named_by_anagrams) derived from ''Munronia'' is ''Nurmonia'', a [confamilial](/source/wiktionary%3Aconfamilial) genus synonym of ''[Turraea](/source/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>
}}

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

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