Flacourtia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Flacourtia indica in Hyderabad W IMG 5603.jpg

|image_caption = Flacourtia indica

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Flacourtia

|authority = Comm. ex L'Hér.{{cite web |title=Flacourtia Comm. ex L'Hér. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30036269-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 October 2023 |language=en}}

|type_species = Flacourtia ramontchi

|type_species_authority = L'Hér.{{cite web |url=http://tropicos.org/Name/40009717 |title=Flacourtia Comm. ex L'Hér. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=2010-02-07}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms = * Donzellia {{au|Ten. in Index Seminum (NAP, Neapolitano) 1839: 11 (1839)}}

• Stigmarota {{au|Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 633 (1790)}}
• Thacombauia {{au|Seem. in Fl. Vit.: 426 (1873)}}

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Flacourtia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It was previously placed in the now defunct family Flacourtiaceae. The generic name honors Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660), a governor of Madagascar. It contains 23 species of shrubs and small trees that are native to the African and Asian tropics and subtropics. Several species, especially Flacourtia indica, are cultivated as ornamentals and for their fruits.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6xcnf5TksYC |title=The New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture |volume=4 |first=Thomas H. |last=Everett |publisher=Courier Corporation |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-8240-7234-6 |pages=2376–2377}} The trunks of small trees are often guarded by branching spines.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}