276; See text Microlicia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to northern South America, particularly Brazil.

[3] Microlicia was first described by David Don in 1823.

[2] In 2021 Versiane et al. discovered that Microlicia was paraphyletic, and expended it to include the related genera Chaetostoma, Lavoisiera, Stenodon, and Trembleya.

[4] The newly circumscribed genus, with 276 species, is one of the largest in family Melastomataeae.

[2][4] The genus name Trembleya was in honour of Abraham Trembley (1710–1784) a Genevan naturalist, Jean Trembley (1704–1785), a Swiss mathematician, and also Jacques-André Trembley (1714–1763), a Swiss botanist.