Liebigia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Plate 4315 (Volume 73, 1847).jpg

|image_caption = Liebigia barbata

|taxon = Liebigia

|authority = Endl.

|synonyms = {{species list

|Morstdorffia |Steud.

|Tromsdorffia |Blume

|Bilabium |Miq.

|Hypopteron |Hassk. }}

}}

Liebigia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.{{cite web |title=Liebigia Endl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17092-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Java, Sumatera and Lesser Sunda Islands.

The genus name of Liebigia is in honour of Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.{{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}}

It was first described and published in Gen. Pl. on page 1407 in 1841.