Ruagea is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Guatemala to Venezuela and Bolivia. Most species are small or medium-sized trees native to montane rain forest and cloud forest in the Andes and Central American mountains, while Ruagea glabra and R. insignis also grow in lowland rain forests.Blanca M Rojas-Andrés, Yuliia Lihanova, Terence D Pennington, Alexandra N Muellner-Riehl, Phylogenetics of the Andean tree genus Ruagea (Meliaceae): implications for taxonomy, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 201, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 443–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac068
Species Nine species are accepted.
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