Preussiella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.
[1] Its native range is western and western central Tropical Africa, in the countries of Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Island, Ivory Coast and Liberia.
[1] The genus name of Preussiella is in honour of Paul Rudolf Preuss (1861–1926), a German botanist and researcher.
He founded and directed a botanical garden in Kamerun (now called Cameroon).
[2] It was first described and published in Nat.