Grandidiera

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| genus = Grandidiera

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Grandidiera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Achariaceae.{{cite web |title=Grandidiera Jaub. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4333-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}} The only species is Grandidiera boivinii {{small|Jaub.}}{{cite web |title=Grandidiera boivinii Jaub. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:111695-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 September 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is in south-eastern Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921), a French naturalist and explorer.{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}}

The Latin specific epithet of boivinii refers to French explorer and plant collector Louis Hyacinthe Boivin (1808-1852).{{cite web |title=Boivin, Louis Hyacinthe (1808-1852) on JSTOR |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000000840 |website=plants.jstor.org |access-date=19 September 2021 }}

It was first published and described in Bull. Soc. Bot. France Vol.13 on page 467 in 1866.