Thouinidium
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|image_caption = Thouinidium decandrum in Mexico
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|authority = Radlk.
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Thouinidium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Sapindaceae.{{cite web |title=Thouinidium Radlk. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36602-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 March 2021 |language=en}}
Distribution and habitat
The native range of species in the genus is from Mexico to Central America, as well as in the Caribbean in Cuba and Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
Taxonomy
The genus name of Thouinidium is in honour of André Thouin (1747–1824), a French botanist. The species were originally thought to be a part of Thouinia, a related genus with the same etymology.{{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}}
It was first described and published in Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München Vol.8 on page 267 in 1878.
=Known species=
- Thouinidium cyrilli-nelsonii {{small|J.Linares}}
- Thouinidium decandrum {{small|(Bonpl.) Radlk.}}
- Thouinidium inaequilaterum {{small|Alain}}
- Thouinidium insigne {{small|(Brandegee) Radlk.}}
- Thouinidium oblongum {{small|Radlk.}}
- Thouinidium pinnatum {{small|(Turpin) Radlk.}}
- Thouinidium pulverulentum {{small|(Griseb.) Radlk.}}
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