''Liebigia'' 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

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Ges ...

. It is native to

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

Sumatera Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi.2), including adjacent i ...

and

Lesser Sunda Islands The Lesser Sunda Islands (, , ), now known as Nusa Tenggara Islands (, or "Southeast Islands"), are an archipelago in the Indonesian archipelago. Most of the Lesser Sunda Islands are located within the Wallacea region, except for the Bali pro ...

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

Justus von Liebig Justus ''Freiherr'' von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a Germans, German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biology, biological chemistry; he is ...

(1803–1873), a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. It was first described and published in Gen. Pl. on page 1407 in 1841.

Known species

According to Kew: *'' Liebigia adenonema'' *'' Liebigia barbata'' *'' Liebigia dissimilis'' *'' Liebigia glabra'' *'' Liebigia horsfieldii'' *''

Liebigia leuserensis ''Liebigia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It is native to Java, Sumatera and Lesser Sunda Islands. The genus name of ''Liebigia'' is in honour of Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), a German scientist who mad ...

'' *'' Liebigia limans'' *'' Liebigia neoforbesii'' *'' Liebigia polyneura'' *'' Liebigia praeterita'' *'' Liebigia tenuipes'' *'' Liebigia tobaensis''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q20719732 Didymocarpoideae Gesneriaceae genera Plants described in 1845 Flora of Java Flora of Sumatra Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands