Parishia is an Asian plant genus in the family Anacardiaceae, subfamily Anacardioideae. It is found in Indo-China and Malesia; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. It was named in 1860, by Joseph Dalton Hooker, in honour of the botanist and plant collector Charles Samuel Pollock Parish.[1]
The type species is P. insignis, the first specimens of which were collected by Parish in the Andaman Islands.
The Catalogue of Life lists: