Neobrittonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
[1] It only contains one known species, Neobrittonia acerifolia [2] Its native range is central Mexico and parts of Central America.
It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panamá[2] The genus name of Neobrittonia is in honour of Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934), an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.
[3] The Latin specific epithet of acerifolia is a compound, 'aceri-' refers to the tree/shrub species acer and -'folia' refers to foliage.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Annuaire Conserv.