Meineckia
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
| Tribe: | Poranthereae |
| Genus: |
Meineckia H.E. Baillon |
| Type species | |
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Meineckia phyllanthoides H.E. Baillon |
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Meineckia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1858.
Meineckia is one of eight genera in the tribe Poranthereae. They are native to the Americas, South Asia, Africa, and Madagascar. The genus is particularly well represented in Madagascar. Species of Meineckia may be monoecious or dioecious. They are trees or shrubs, or rarely, they are subherbaceous.
The circumscription of Meineckia has undergone several changes since Henri Ernest Baillon erected the genus in 1858. Some of its species have been put in other genera and sometimes other genera have been merged with it. The name Peltandra had been used for some species in Meineckia, but this is now a nomen rejectum. The name Peltandra is now conserved as the name of a genus in Araceae.
Meineckia was last revised in 2008 by Vorontsova and Hoffmann. They recognized 30 species and divided the genus into two subgenera.
Meineckia subgenus Petaliferae has only two species: its type species, Meineckia cerebroides, and Meineckia gracilipes. They are dioecious shrubs from Madagascar. Their petals are very small.
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