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, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in

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/ref> ;Species # '' Premna acuminata'' R.Br. - Australia, New Guinea # '' Premna acutata'' W.W.Sm. - southwestern China (Yunnan, Sichuan) # '' Premna alba'' H.J.Lam - Palau # '' Premna ambongensis'' Moldenke -

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# '' Premna amplectens'' Wall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar # ''

Premna angolensis ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Gürke - tropical Africa # '' Premna angustiflora'' H.J.Lam -

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Premna annulata ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam # ''

Premna aureolepidota ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''

Premna balakrishnanii ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu # ''

Premna balansae ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Dop - Vietnam # ''

Premna barbata ''Premna barbata'' () is a plant species in the genus '' Premna'' (family Lamiaceae), first described in 1847. It is native to Myanmar and to the Indian Subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himal ...

'' Wall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar # ''

Premna bengalensis ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam # ''

Premna bequaertii ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Moldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre # ''

Premna bracteata ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Wall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar # ''

Premna cambodiana ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Dop - Cambodia, Vietnam # ''

Premna cavaleriei ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' H.Lév - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi) # ''

Premna chevalieri ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Dop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan, Yunnan) # ''

Premna chrysoclada ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' (Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau # '' Premna collinsae'' Craib - Thailand # ''

Premna confinis ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Guangxi, Yunnan) # '' Premna congolensis'' Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda # '' Premna cordifolia'' Roxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya # '' Premna coriacea'' C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands # ''

Premna corymbosa ''Premna serratifolia'' is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It blooms and fruits between May and November.Described by Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi in India biodiversity ...

'' Rottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands # ''

Premna crassa ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' Hand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan) # '' Premna debiana'' A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh # '' Premna decaryi'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna decurrens'' H.J.Lam -

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# '' Premna discolor'' Verdc. -

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# '' Premna dubia'' Craib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam # '' Premna esculenta'' Roxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand # '' Premna fohaiensis'' C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna fordii'' Dunn - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan) # '' Premna fulva'' Craib - Indochina,

, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan) # '' Premna garrettii'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # '' Premna glaberrima'' Wight - southern India # '' Premna glandulosa'' Hand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna gracillima'' Verdc. - Kenya, Tanzania # '' Premna grandifolia'' A.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = ''Premna hutchinsonii'' # ''

Premna grossa ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' Wall. ex Schauer - Myanmar # '' Premna guillauminii'' Moldenke - New Caledonia # '' Premna hainanensis'' Chun & F.C.How - China (Hainan) # '' Premna hans-joachimii'' Verdc. - Tanzania # '' Premna henryana'' (Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Yunnan) # '' Premna herbacea'' Roxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia,

, New Guinea, northern Australia # '' Premna hildebrandtii'' Gürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe # '' Premna hispida'' Benth. - West Africa # '' Premna humbertii'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna hutchinsonii'' Moldenke - Ivory Coast # '' Premna interrupta'' Wall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina # '' Premna jalpaiguriana'' T.K.Paul - West Bengal # '' Premna khasiana'' C.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand # '' Premna lepidella'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna ligustroides'' Hemsl - China (Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan) # '' Premna longiacuminata'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna longifolia'' Roxb. - Himalayas # '' Premna longipetiolata'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''

Premna lucens ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Mentha, mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islan ...

'' A.Chev. - West Africa # '' Premna macrophylla'' Wall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina # '' Premna madagascariensis'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna mariannarum'' Schauer - Mariana Islands # '' Premna matadiensis'' Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola # ''

Premna maxima ''Premna maxima'' is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, K ...

'' T.C.E. Fr. - Kenya # '' Premna mekongensis'' W.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna micrantha'' Schauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh # '' Premna microphylla'' Turcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang) # '' Premna milleflora'' C.B.Clarke - Assam # '' Premna milnei'' Baker - Nigeria, Bioko # '' Premna minor'' Domin - Queensland # '' Premna mollissima'' Roth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina,

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# '' Premna mooiensis'' (H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa # '' Premna mortehanii'' De Wild - Zaïre # '' Premna mundanthuraiensis'' A.Rajendran & P.Daniel -

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# '' Premna neurophylla'' Chiov. -

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# '' Premna oblongata'' Miq. - Indonesia, Philippines # ''

Premna odorata ''Premna odorata'' is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family. It is commonly known as fragrant premna, and is native to the Indian subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Northern Australia, and naturalized in South Fl ...

'' Blanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in FloridaBiota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
/ref> # '' Premna oligantha'' C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan) # '' Premna oligotricha'' Baker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania # '' Premna orangeana'' Capuron - Madagascar # '' Premna paisehensis'' C.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi) # '' Premna pallescens'' Ridl.- Borneo, Indonesia # '' Premna parasitica'' Blume - Indonesia # '' Premna parvilimba'' C.Pei - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna paucinervis'' (C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu # '' Premna paulobarbata'' H.J.Lam - Mariana Islands # '' Premna perplexans'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna perrieri'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''

Premna pinguis ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' C.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java # ''

Premna polita ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' Hiern - Angola # '' Premna procumbens'' Moon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka # ''

Premna protrusa ''Premna protrusa'' is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeas ...

'' A.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji # '' Premna puberula'' Pamp. - China (Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan) # '' Premna pubescens'' Blume -

, Philippines, Christmas Island # '' Premna puerensis'' Y.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna punduana'' Wall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh # ''

Premna punicea ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna purpurascens'' Thwaites - Sri Lanka # '' Premna quadrifolia'' Schumach. & Thonn. - West Africa # '' Premna rabakensis'' Moldenke - Cambodia # '' Premna regularis'' H.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea # '' Premna repens'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # '' Premna resinosa'' (Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India # '' Premna richardsiae'' Moldenke - Tanzania # '' Premna rubroglandulosa'' C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna scandens'' Roxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina # '' Premna schimperi'' Engl - East Africa # '' Premna schliebenii'' Werderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique # '' Premna scoriarum'' W.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar # '' Premna senensis'' Klotzsch - eastern + central Africa # '' Premna serrata'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # ''

Premna serratifolia ''Premna serratifolia'' is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It blooms and fruits between May and November.Described by Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi in India biodiversity ...

'' L. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans # '' Premna siamensis'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # '' Premna stenobotrys'' Merr. - Vietnam # '' Premna steppicola'' Hand.-Mazz. - China (Sichuan, Yunnan) # †'' Premna sterculiifolia'' King & Gamble - Malaya but extinct # '' Premna straminicaulis'' C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna subcapitata'' Rehder - China (Sichuan, Yunnan) # '' Premna sulphurea'' (Baker) Gürke - Angola # '' Premna sunyiensis'' C.Pei - China (Guangdong) # '' Premna szemaoensis'' Pei - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna tahitensis'' J.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific # '' Premna tanganyikensis'' Moldenke - Tanzania,

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# '' Premna tapintzeana'' Dop - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna tenii'' C.Pei - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna thorelii'' Dop - Laos # '' Premna thwaitesii'' C.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka # ''

Premna tomentosa ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in t ...

'' Willd. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands # '' Premna trichostoma'' Miq. - Southeast Asia,

, New Guinea # '' Premna urticifolia'' Rehder - China (Yunnan) # ''

Premna velutina ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' Gürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique # ''

Premna venulosa ''Premna'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in th ...

'' Moldenke - Madagascar # '' Premna wightiana'' Schauer - India, Sri Lanka # '' Premna wui'' Boufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan) # '' Premna yunnanensis'' W.W.Sm - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

References

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