Pseudolmedia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pseudolmedia

| image_alt = A photo of the plant Pseudolmedia glabrata

| image_caption = Pseudolmedia glabrata

| image = Lechudo_(pseudolmedia_osyphyllaria).jpg

| authority = Trécul (1847)The genus Pseudolmedia was first described and published in Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, sér. 3 8: 129. 1847.: later, as no type had been designated by the genus authority, two lectotypes (P. ferruginea and P. havanensis) were designated as types. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017997 |title=Name - Pseudolmedia Trécul |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT) |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |quote=Type Specimens: LT: Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul; LT: Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul |accessdate=December 30, 2012}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 11; see text

| subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40960-1 Pseudolmedia Trécul]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 April 2024.

| synonyms = Olmediopsis {{small|H.Karst. (1862)}}

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Pseudolmedia is a flowering plant genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Species are found in southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Meso- and South America.{{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017997?tab=maps |title=Name - Pseudolmedia Trécul distribution map |work=Tropicos |publisher=MOBOT |accessdate=December 30, 2012}} They are known in Latin America as lechechiva (approximately "goat's milk tree"){{citation needed|date=December 2012}} and used for timber, construction wood, and sometimes in folk medicine.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}