{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Hemichroa diandra (7596879742).jpg |image_caption = ''Hemichroa diandra'', synonym of ''Surreya diandra'' |taxon = Surreya |authority = R.Masson & G.Kadereit }} '''''Surreya''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Surreya'' R.Masson & G.Kadereit {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77125829-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is also in the Polycnemoideae subfamily.<ref>Rüdiger Masson & Gudrun Kadereit (2013): Phylogeny of Polycnemoideae (Amaranthaceae): Implications for biogeography, character evolution and taxonomy. ''Taxon'' 62 (1): 100-111. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2013/00000062/00000001/art00009]</ref>
It is native to Australia.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Surreya'' is in honour of Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs (1946–2009), an Australian botanist and botanical garden taxonomist in Sydney.<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 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Taxon Vol.62 on page 109 in 2013.<ref name="POWO"/>
Known species:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Surreya diandra'' {{small|(R.Br.) R.Masson & G.Kadereit}} *''Surreya mesembryanthema'' {{small|(F.Muell.) R.Masson & G.Kadereit}}
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Category:Amaranthaceae Category:Amaranthaceae genera Category:Plants described in 2013 Category:Endemic flora of Australia