''Lecomtedoxa'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in family

Sapotaceae 240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India The Sapotaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology), order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of ev ...

described as a genus in 1914.Tropicos, Lecomtedoxa (Pierre ex Engl.) Dubard
/ref>Dubard, Marcel Marie Maurice. 1914. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum de Paris 3: 46-47
/ref> Lecomtedoxa is native to tropical west-central Africa (

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).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> ;Species # '' Lecomtedoxa biraudii'' – Republic of the Congo, Gabon # '' Lecomtedoxa heitzana'' – Gabon # '' Lecomtedoxa klaineana'' – Cameroon, Gabon # '' Lecomtedoxa nogo'' – Gabon # '' Lecomtedoxa plumosa'' – Cameroon # '' Lecomtedoxa saint-aubinii'' – Gabon

References

Flora of Africa Sapotaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Sapotaceae-stub