''Heckeldora'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s belonging to the family

Meliaceae Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarp ...

. They are shrubs or small trees with odd-pinnate leaves. Plants are

dioecious Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproductio ...

, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Its native range is western and western central

Tropical Africa Although tropical Africa is mostly familiar to the West for its rainforests, this biogeographic realm of Africa is far more diverse. While the tropics are thought of as regions with hot moist climates, which are caused by latitude and the tropi ...

. It is found in the countries of Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire. The genus name of ''Heckeldora'' is in honour of

Édouard Marie Heckel Dr. Édouard Marie Heckel (March 24, 1843 – January 20, 1916) was a French botanist and medical doctor, and director of the Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel in Marseille. Heckel was born in Toulon, studied pharmacy and medicine, and in 1861 visited ...

(1843–1916), a French botanist and medical doctor, and director of the

Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel The Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel (12,000 m2), also known as the Jardin botanique de Marseille and the Jardin botanique Borély de Marseille, is a municipal botanical garden in the Parc Borély at 48, Avenue Clot Bey, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, ...

in Marseille. It was first described and published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris Vol.2 on page 1268 in 1896.

Known species

According to Kew: *'' Heckeldora jongkindii'' *'' Heckeldora ledermannii'' *'' Heckeldora leonensis'' *'' Heckeldora leptotricha'' *'' Heckeldora staudtii'' *'' Heckeldora trifoliolata'' *'' Heckeldora zenkeri''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10294227 Meliaceae Meliaceae genera Dioecious plants Flora of West Tropical Africa Flora of Cameroon