''Munronia'' is a genus of

flowering plants 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 ...

in 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 ...

. Its native distribution is tropical and subtropical Asia. The name ''Munronia'' is a taxonomic patronym honoring the English botanist William Munro (1818 - 1880), a plant collector in India, Kashmir, and Barbados. A taxonomic anagram derived from ''Munronia'' is ''Nurmonia'', a confamilial genus synonym of ''

Turraea ''Turraea'' is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae, native to the Old World The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe , after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contras ...

''.

References

Meliaceae genera Plants described in 1839 Meliaceae {{Meliaceae-stub