Genus of flowering plants in the chinaberry family Meliaceae
Munronia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae .[ 2] [ 3] Its native distribution is tropical and subtropical Asia.[ 1]
The name Munronia is a taxonomic patronym honoring the English botanist William Munro (1818 - 1880), a plant collector in India, Kashmir, and Barbados.[ 4] A taxonomic anagram derived from Munronia is Nurmonia , a confamilial genus synonym of Turraea .[ 5]
References
^ a b c "Munronia Wight | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 2020-06-14 .
^ Wight, Robert (1840). Illustrations of Indian botany :or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants, described in the author's prodromus florae peninsulae Indiae orientalis . Vol. v. 1 1840. Madras: published by J. B. Pharoah for the author.
^ Bennett, M. I. J. (1841). "Révision des genres Turraea and Munronia ". Annales des sciences naturelles: Botanique (in French). Fortin, Masson et Cie. pp. 83– 96.
^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2012-05-03). CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set) . CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-8044-5 .
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. M66. doi :10.3372/epolist2018 . ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 . S2CID 187926901 .