Koehneria

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| genus = Koehneria

| parent_authority = S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas

| species = madagascariensis

| authority = (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas

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|Lagerstroemia madagascariensis |Baker

|Murtughas madagascariensis |(Baker) Kuntze

|Pemphis madagascariensis |(Baker) Koehne

|Pemphis punctata |Drake }}

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Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae.{{cite web |title=Koehneria S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:925037-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}} The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis {{small|(Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas}}{{cite web |title=Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:943977-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=10 October 2021 |language=en}}

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,{{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 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).