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Premna

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ937726 ↗
Source-derived summary

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 the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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 - Madagascar

Premna amplectens Wall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar

Premna angolensis Gürke - tropical Africa

Premna angustiflora H.J.Lam - Palau

Premna annulata H.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam

Premna aureolepidota Moldenke - Madagascar

Premna balakrishnanii A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu

Premna balansae Dop - Vietnam

Premna barbata Wall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar

Premna bengalensis C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam

Premna bequaertii Moldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre

Premna bracteata Wall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar

Premna cambodiana Dop - Cambodia, Vietnam

Premna cavaleriei H.Lév - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi)

Premna chevalieri Dop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan, Yunnan)

Premna chrysoclada (Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau

Premna collinsae Craib - Thailand

Premna confinis 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 Rottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Premna crassa Hand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)

Premna debiana A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh

Premna decaryi Moldenke - Madagascar

Premna decurrens H.J.Lam - Indonesia

Premna discolor Verdc.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Premna” as genus of plants. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Premna, genus and plants.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1771—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Premna, genus and plants providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q937726. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1771.

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This entry incorporates text from “Premna” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.