recordia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Recordia

|authority = Moldenke

|synonyms = Verbenoxylum {{small|Tronc.}}

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Recordia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Verbenaceae.{{cite web |title=Recordia Moldenke {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295531-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Bolivia and southern Brazil.

The genus name of Recordia is in honour of Samuel J. Record (1881–1945), an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of trees and wood.{{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 Phytologia Vol.1 on page 99 in 1934.

Known species, according to Kew:

• Recordia boliviana {{small|Moldenke}}
• Recordia reitzii {{small|(Moldenke) Thode & O'Leary}}