Normandiodendron

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Normandiodendron

|parent_authority = J.Léonard

|species = bequaertii

|authority = (De Wild.) J.Léonard

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|Cynometra bequaertii {{small|De Wild.}}

|Cynometra claessensii {{small|De Wild.}}

|Cynometra purpureocaerulea {{small|Baker f.}}

|Cynometra rubriflora {{small|De Wild.}}

|Leonardoxa bequaertii {{small|(De Wild.) Aubrév.}}

|Schotia bequaertii {{small|(De Wild.) De Wild.}}

|Schotia bergeri {{small|De Wild.}}

|Schotia kirunduensis {{small|De Wild.}}

|Schotia rubriflora {{small|(De Wild.) De Wild.}} }}

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Normandiodendron is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae.{{cite web |title=Normandiodendron J.Léonard {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:974656-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Normandiodendron bequaertii (De Wild.) J.Léonard

It is native to Angola, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Zaïre.

The genus name of Normandiodendron is in honour of Didier Normand (1908–2002), research director for tropical forests in Nogent-sur-Marne, France. He was also a specialist on tropical wood.{{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 bequaertii refers to Joseph Charles Bequaert (1886-1982), an American naturalist of Belgian, who taught Entomology at the Harvard Medical School.

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. Vol.62 on page 446-449 in 1993.