Perrierophytum

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Perrierophytum

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|synonyms = Perrieranthus {{small|Hochr.}}

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Perrierophytum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.{{cite web |title=Perrierophytum Hochr. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26021-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Mozambique and Madagascar.

The genus name of Perrierophytum is in honour of Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.{{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 Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève Vols.18-19 on page 229 in 1915.