Foetidia Explained

Foetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.^{[1] [2]}

Most authors place the genus in the family Lecythidaceae, the sole genus in the subfamily Foetidioideae, but some prefer to treat it as a distinct family, the Foetidiaceae.^[3] It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.^[4]

Species

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The wood of Foetidia mauritiana is one of several woods known as stinkwood because of its unpleasant smell.

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/721111#page/459/mode/1up Commerson, Philibert, ex Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. 1788. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2: 457
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40010074 Tropicos, Foetidia Comm. ex Lam
3. http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/foetidia.htm Foetidia
4. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=84636 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families