Swinglea

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Swinglea glutinosa 01.jpg

|image_caption = In Flamingo Tropical Garden in Davie, Florida, US

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|genus = Swinglea

|parent_authority = Merr.

|species = glutinosa

|authority = (Blanco) Merr.

|synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=775281-1 |title=Swinglea glutinosa (Blanco) Merr. |access-date=21 December 2021}}

|synonyms = {{species list

|Aegle glutinosa |(Blanco) Merr.

|Belou glutinosa |(Blanco) Skeels

|Chaetospermum glutinosum |(Blanco) Swingle

|Limonia glutinosa |Blanco }}

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Swinglea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae.{{cite web |title=Swinglea Merr. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35967-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=12 March 2021 |language=en}} It only contains a single species, Swinglea glutinosa.

It is native to the Philippines.

The genus name of Swinglea is in honour of Walter Tennyson Swingle (1871–1952), an American agricultural botanist who contributed greatly to the classification and taxonomy of citrus.{{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}} The genus has one known synonym of Chaetospermum {{small|(M.Roem.) Swingle}}. The Latin specific epithet of glutinosa is derived from gluten meaning glue.{{cite book | last=Lewis | first=Charlton | title=An Elementary Latin Dictionary | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | year=1891 | isbn=9780199102051}}

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in J. Arnold Arbor. Vol.8 on page 131 in 1927.