Marcetella

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}

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| image = Marcetella moquiniana imported from iNaturalist photo 338024269 on 17 January 2024.jpg

| image_caption = Marcetella moquiniana

| taxon = Marcetella

| authority = Svent.

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Marcetella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae.{{cite web |title=Marcetella Svent. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:33899-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to the Canary Islands and Madeira within Macaronesia .

The genus name of Marcetella is in honour of Adeodato Francisco Marcet (1875–1964), a Spanish clergyman, botanist and agronomist. Who also worked in a botanical garden in Blanes.{{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 Bol. Inst. Nac. Invest. Agron. Vol.18 (Issue 95) on page 263 in 1948.