Loeseneriella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. The name is in honour of Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener (1865–1941), a German botanist who collected widely in the field in Germany and did much work on the Celastraceae. It was first described and published in the American Journal of Botany in 1941.
Distribution The native range of Loeseneriella is tropical and subtropical Old World, in these areas: Africa – Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Niger, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierre Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; also the islands of Comoros and Madagascar Indian subcontinent – Assam, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka Indo-China – Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam East Asia – China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Malesia – Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera Papuasia – Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is. Australia – New South Wales, Queensland Western Pacific – Caroline Is., Vanuatu
Accepted species , Plants of the World Online accepts the following 29 species:
Loeseneriella africana Loeseneriella andamanica Loeseneriella apiculata Loeseneriella apocynoides Loeseneriella barbata Loeseneriella bourdillonii Loeseneriella camerunica Loeseneriella chesseana Loeseneriella clematoides Loeseneriella concinna Loeseneriella crenata Loeseneriella cumingii Loeseneriella dinhensis Loeseneriella ectypopetala Loeseneriella griseoramula Loeseneriella iotricha Loeseneriella lenticellata Loeseneriella macrantha Loeseneriella merrilliana Loeseneriella nicobarica Loeseneriella parkinsonii Loeseneriella pauciflora Loeseneriella rowlandii Loeseneriella rubiginosa Loeseneriella serrata Loeseneriella sogerensis Loeseneriella urceolus Loeseneriella yaundina Loeseneriella yunnanensis
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