''Lingelsheimia'' is a

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

in the

families Family (from ) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as ...

Phyllanthaceae Phyllanthaceae is a Family (biology), family of flowering plants in the eudicot Order (biology), order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae.Kenneth J. Wurdack and Charles C. Davis. 2009. "Malpighiales phylogeneti ...

(and previously placed in the family Putranjivaceae), first described as a genus in 1909. It is native to central

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

and

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ;Species # '' Lingelsheimia abbayesii'' (Leandri) Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar # '' Lingelsheimia ambigua'' (Leandri) Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar # '' Lingelsheimia fiherenensis'' (Leandri) Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar # '' Lingelsheimia frutescens'' Pax - Gabon, Zaire # '' Lingelsheimia manongarivensis'' (Leandri) G.L.Webster - Madagascar # '' Lingelsheimia sylvestris'' (Radcl.-Sm.) Radcl.-Sm. - Tanzania

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Phyllanthaceae Malpighiales genera Flora of the Afrotropical realm {{Malpighiales-stub