{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Perriera |authority = Courchet }}
'''''Perriera''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Simaroubaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Perriera'' Courchet {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38222-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is endemic to Madagascar.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Perriera'' is in honour of Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.<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 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Bull. Soc. Bot. France Vol.52 on page 284 in 1905.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Perriera madagascariensis'' {{small|Courchet}} *''Perriera orientalis'' {{small|Capuron}}
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Category:Simaroubaceae Category:Sapindales genera Category:Plants described in 1905 Category:Endemic flora of Madagascar Category:Taxa named by Lucien Désiré Joseph Courchet