Squamellaria

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|image = Squamellaria wilsonii.jpg

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|image_caption = S. wilsonii on the island of Taveuni at about 2,200 feet elevation in forest along Somosomo Creek

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|taxon = Squamellaria

|authority = Becc. (1886)

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|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35379-1 Squamellaria Becc.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

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Squamellaria is a genus of myrmecophytic flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Squamellaria|title=Squamellaria in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae|accessdate=26 April 2014}} It includes eight species native to the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

It is one of five ant-plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, the others being Anthorrhiza, Hydnophytum, Myrmecodia, and Myrmephytum.{{cite web|url=http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/research/hydnophytum.htm|title=A revision of the ant-plant genus Hydnophytum (Rubiaceae)|last=Jebb M, Huxley C|date=8 February 2009 |website=National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin website|publisher=National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin |accessdate=19 December 2009|location=Dublin, Ireland}}

Species

Eight species are accepted:

References

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Category:Rubiaceae genera

Category:Myrmecophytes

Category:Taxa named by Odoardo Beccari

Category:Psychotrieae

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