{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Wenzelia |authority = Merr. }} '''''Wenzelia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Wenzelia'' Merr. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35995-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to the Philippines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji.<ref name="POWO" />
==Known species== As accepted by Plants of the World Online:<ref name="POWO" /> {{linked species list |Wenzelia archboldiana |Swingle |Wenzelia brevipes |Merr. |Wenzelia dolichophylla |(K.Schum. & Lauterb.) Tanaka |Wenzelia grandiflora |(Lauterb.) Swingle |Wenzelia kambarae |Swingle |Wenzelia melanesica |Swingle |Wenzelia platysperma |Swingle |Wenzelia tenuifolia |Swingle }}
==Taxonomy== The genus name of ''Wenzelia'' is in honour of Chester A. Wenzel (1882–1929), an American teacher, cattle rancher and plant collector in the Philippines.<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 Philipp. J. Sci., Section C, Vol.10 on page 272 in 1915.<ref name="POWO"/>
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Category:Aurantioideae Category:Aurantioideae genera Category:Plants described in 1915 Category:Taxa named by Elmer Drew Merrill