Petchia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Petchia erythrocarpa - Jardin Botanique de Lyon - DSC05419.JPG

| image_caption = Petchia erythrocarpa
Jardin Botanique de Lyon

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| taxon = Petchia

| authority = Livera{{Citation |contribution=Petchia|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=150787 |accessdate=18 August 2013}}

| synonyms =

• Cabucala Pichon

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web

|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=150787

|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

|accessdate=May 18, 2014}}

}}

Petchia is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1926. It is native to Madagascar, Cameroon, the Comoros and Sri Lanka.

;SpeciesSearch for "Petchia", {{Citation |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ |accessdate=18 August 2013 }}

1. Petchia africana Leeuwenb. - Cameroon
2. Petchia ceylanica (Wight) Livera - Sri Lanka
3. Petchia cryptophlebia (Baker) Leeuwenb. - Madagascar
4. Petchia erythrocarpa (Vatke) Leeuwenb. - Comoros, Madagascar
5. Petchia humbertii (Markgr.) Leeuwenb. - Madagascar
6. Petchia madagascariensis (A.DC.) Leeuwenb. - Madagascar
7. Petchia montana (Pichon) Leeuwenb. - Madagascar
8. Petchia plectaneiifolia (Pichon) Leeuwenb. - Madagascar