Kuhlmanniodendron
{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Angiospermas endêmicas das florestas costeiras da Bahia.jpg
| image_caption = Fig A showing Kuhlmanniodendron macrocarpum (Achariaceae)
| taxon = Kuhlmanniodendron
| authority = Fiaschi & Groppo
}}
Kuhlmanniodendron is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Achariaceae.{{cite web |title=Kuhlmanniodendron Fiaschi & Groppo {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60447727-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Fiaschi |first1=Pedro |last2=Groppo |first2=Milton |title=Kuhlmanniodendron Fiaschi & Groppo, a new eastern Brazilian genus of Achariaceae sensu lato segregated from Carpotroche Endl. (formerly included in Flacourtiaceae) |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2008 |volume=157 |issue=1 |pages=103–109 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00761.x |doi-access=free }}
It is native to eastern Brazil.
The genus name of Kuhlmanniodendron is in honour of João Geraldo Kuhlmann (1882–1958), a Brazilian 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 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}} the other part of the name dendron refers to the Greek word for tree.{{cite book | last=Gledhill | first=David | title=The Names of Plants | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=New York, New York | year=2008 | isbn=9780521866453}}
It was first described and published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. Vol.157 on page 104 in 2008.
Known species, according to Kew:
- Kuhlmanniodendron apterocarpum {{small|(Kuhlm.) Fiaschi & Groppo}}
- Kuhlmanniodendron macrocarpum {{small|Groppo, Favaretto & Fiaschi}}