Turraea

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants in the chinaberry family Meliaceae}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2007}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Turraea pubescens flowers.jpg |image_caption = ''Turraea pubescens'' |taxon = Turraea |authority = L. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text. |synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO"/> |synonyms = * ''Calodryum'' Desv. * ''Gilibertia'' J.F.Gmel. * ''Ginnania'' M.Roem. * ''Grevellina'' Baill. * ''Nurmonia'' Harms {{efn | One anagram of this genus name yields ''Munronia'', another closely related genus of Meliaceae.<ref name="Bennett1841"/><ref name="Burkhardt2018"/>}} * ''Payeria'' Baill. * ''Quivisia'' Comm. ex Juss. * ''Rutaea'' M.Roem. * ''Scyphostigma'' M.Roem. * ''Stephanosiphon'' Boivin ex C.DC. }} '''''Turraea''''' is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae, native to the Old World tropics and subtropics.

==Range== The genus is native to the countries of Angola, Australia (Queensland and New South Wales), Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China (southeast, Hainan), Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Indonesia (Java, Lesser Sunda Islands and Western New Guinea), Ivory Coast, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia (Caprivi Strip), Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa (Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and northern provinces), Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Turraea'' L. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26854-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=3 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

== Systematics == The genus contains approximately 70 species, including: * ''Turraea abyssinica'' Hochst. * ''Turraea adjanohounii'' Aké Assi * ''Turraea anomala'' (O. Hoffm.) Harms * ''Turraea floribunda'' Hochst. * ''Turraea fockei'' Buchenau * ''Turraea geayi'' Danguy * ''Turraea humberti'' Danguy * ''Turraea kimbozensis'' Cheek * ''Turraea laciniosa'' (Balf.f.) Harms * ''Turraea lanceolata'' Cav. * ''Turraea longifolia'' C. DC. * ''Turraea mombassana'' * ''Turraea nilotica'' Kotschy & Peyr. * ''Turraea obovata'' Gürke * ''Turraea obtusifolia'' Hochst. * ''Turraea pervillei'' Baill. * ''Turraea pubescens'' Hell. * ''Turraea rhombifolia'' Baker * ''Turraea richardii'' Baill. * ''Turraea robusta'' * ''Turraea rostrata'' C. DC. * ''Turraea sericea'' Sm. * ''Turraea socotrana'' White * ''Turraea thouvenotii'' Danguy * ''Turraea venulosa'' Baker * ''Turraea villosa'' Bennett * ''Turraea virens'' L. * ''Turraea wakefieldii'' Oliv. * ''Turraea zambesica'' Sprague & Hutch. ex Hutch.

== Notes == {{Notelist}}

== 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 |url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018|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> }}

==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Turraea'' L. |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2900023}} {{Commonscat-inline}} {{Wikispecies-inline}}

Category:Turraea Category:Meliaceae genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot