Zuccarinia

Zuccarinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family of Rubiaceae.

The genus contains only one species, i.e. Zuccarinia macrophylla, which is endemic to western Malesia,[1] It is found in Jawa, Malaya and Sumatera.

[2] The genus and species were circumscribed by Carl Ludwig Blume in Bijdr.

[2] The genus name of Zuccarinia is in honour of Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848), who was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of Munich.

[3] This Ixoroideae article is a stub.