Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae.[1] The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis [2]
It is native to Madagascar.
The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland,[3] The Latin specific epithet of madagascariensis means "coming from Madagascar",and both genus and species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.73 on pages 805-806 in (1986 publ. 1987).