''Indofevillea'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s belonging to the family

Cucurbitaceae The Cucurbitaceae (), also called cucurbits or the gourd family, are a plant family (biology), family consisting of about 965 species in 101 genera.

. Its native range is

Eastern Himalayas ] The Eastern Himalayas extend from eastern Nepal across Northeast India, Bhutan, the Tibet Autonomous Region to Yunnan in China and northern Myanmar. The climate of this region is influenced by the monsoon of South Asia from June to September. I ...

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

, to

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

and

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. The genus name of ''Indofevillea'' is in honour of

Louis Feuillée Louis Éconches Feuillée (sometimes spelled Feuillet; 1660 – 18 April 1732) was a French member of the Order of the Minims, explorer, astronomer, geographer and botanist. Biography Feuillée was born in Mane in Provence in 1660. He was educ ...

(1660–1732), a French member of the

Order of the Minims The Order of Minims (; abbreviated OM), known in German-speaking countries as the Paulaner Order (), are a religious order of friars in the Catholic Church, founded by Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The order soon spread to France, ...

, explorer, astronomer, geographer, and botanist. It was first described and published by Debabarta Chatterjee in 1946. Known species, according to Kew; *'' Indofevillea jiroi'' *'' Indofevillea khasiana''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3764555 Cucurbitaceae Cucurbitaceae genera Plants described in 1946 Flora of East Himalaya Flora of Assam (region) Flora of Tibet Flora of Myanmar