Nayariophyton

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Nayariophyton zizyphifolium.jpg

|image_caption = Nayariophyton zizyphifolium

|taxon = Nayariophyton

|authority = T.K.Paul

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|Dicellostyles jujubifolia |Benth. & Hook.f.

|Dicellostyles zizyphifolia |(Griff.) Phuph.

|Kydia jujubifolia |Griff.

|Kydia zizyphifolia |Griff.}}

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Nayariophyton is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.{{cite web |title=Nayariophyton T.K.Paul {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:925159-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Nayariophyton zizyphifolium (Griff.) D.G.Long & A.G.Mill. {{cite web |title=Nayariophyton zizyphifolium (Griff.) D.G.Long & A.G.Mill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:962191-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=31 October 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is eastern Himalayas to southern Central China and Thailand. It is found in Assam (India), China, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand.

The genus name of Nayariophyton is in honour of Madhavan Parameswarau Nayar (1905–1978).{{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}} The Latin specific epithet of zizyphifolium

refers to Ziziphus and folium which refers to foliage,{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1-84533-731-5 }} meaning that the plant has foliage similar to the Ziziphus plant, a genus of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family.

It was first described and published in Fasc. Fl. India Vol.19 on page 183 in 1988.