Schlegelia is a group of plants described as a genus in 1844.Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. 1844. Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 2(46): 785-789 descriptions in Latin, commentary in GermanTropicos, Schlegelia Miq. The genus is named after the German anatomist and physician Paul Marquard Schlegel.
Schlegelia is native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere from southern Mexico and the West Indies to southern Brazil.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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