Prainea

{{Short description|Genus of trees}}

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| taxon = Prainea

| authority = King ex Hook.f. (1888)

| type_species = Prainea scandens

| type_species_authority = King ex Hook.f.{{cite journal|author=Hooker, J.D.|date=1888|journal=The Flora of British India. London|volume=5|issue=15 |page=546|title=Prainea|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/355201}}

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Prainea is a genus of trees in the plant family Moraceae.{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40015700 |title=Prainea in Tropicos|publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=2009-01-16 |accessdate=2009-03-11}} It is sometimes treated as a subgenus of Artocarpus.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1013 |title=Artocarpus J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2009-01-16 |accessdate=2009-03-11}} It includes two species native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40957-1 Prainea King ex Hook.f.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 April 2024. The species are dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants.{{cite book|isbn= 9789071236648|title= Moraceae - Genera other than Ficus|work=Flora Malesiana|series=1|volume=17|issue=1|date=2006|pages=1–152|first1=Berg|last1=C.C.|last2=Corner|first2=E.J.H.|last3=Jarrett|first3=F.M.}}