''Nuxia'' is a genus of

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 ...

s in the family

Stilbaceae Stilbaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales The Lamiales (also known as the mint order) are an order of flowering plants in the asterids clade of the Eudicots. Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification ...

described as a genus in 1791.Tropicos, ''Nuxia'' Comm. ex Lam.
/ref> It was formerly placed in the

Loganiaceae The Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes up to 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics. There are not any great morphological characteristics to distinguish these taxa from ot ...

and

Buddlejaceae Buddlejaceae is a family of flowering plants that is not currently recognized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, but as of 2016 it is being used by many botanists as one of several small families that divide the Lamiales. Phylogenetic reconstru ...

families. ''Nuxia'' is native to

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, the

Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula (, , or , , ) or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At , comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the ...

, and certain islands in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Species

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* http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Stilbaceae/Nuxia/ Lamiales genera Stilbaceae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Flora of the Afrotropical realm Taxa described in 1791 Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck {{Lamiales-stub