Topic summary
Trochetia
Trochetia is a subgenus of flowering plants, now placed in the genus Ruizia and the familyMalvaceae (formerly in the Sterculiaceae, but genera now usually subsumed in the Dombeyoideae and other subfamilies). Species are endemic to the Mascarene Islands. The original genus was first described by A.P. de Candolle in 1823, who named it in honour of French botanist Henri Dutrochet.