Deprea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|authority = Raf. (1838)

|synonyms = Larnax {{small|Miers (1849)}}

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Deprea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae.

It includes 55 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Costa Rica to Venezuela, Northern Brazil, and Bolivia.

The genus name of Deprea is in honour of Alexandre-Armand Desprez (1747–1829), a French doctor and botanist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

Species

55 species are accepted.

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