Napoleonaea is a genus of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus in 1804, the same year its namesake (Napoleon Bonaparte) crowned himself Emperor of the French.Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1804. Napoléone Impériale 1.Tropicos, Napoleonaea P. Beauv. The genus is native to Africa.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesRonde de Craene, L. P. Floral development of Napoleonaea (Lecythidaceae), a deceptively complex flower. Flowers on the Tree of Life. Cambridge University Press. 2011.Liben, L. (1971). Révision du genre africain Napoleonaea P. Beauv. (Lecythidaceae). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 41: 363-382.
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