Foetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.Commerson, Philibert, ex Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. 1788. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2: 457 in FrenchTropicos, Foetidia Comm. ex Lam
Most authors place the genus in the family Lecythidaceae, the sole genus in the subfamily Foetidioideae, but some prefer to treat it as a distinct family, the Foetidiaceae.Foetidia (as Foetidiaceae) in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants. It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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The wood of Foetidia mauritiana is one of several woods known as stinkwood because of its unpleasant smell.
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