Rhysotoechia

Rhysotoechia is a genus of plants in the soapberry family Sapindaceae which is native to parts of Malesia and Australia.

Taxonomy
The genus was created in 1879 by the Bavarian-born botanist Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer. The type species is Rhysotoechia mortoniana, based on Cupania mortoniana.

Distribution and habitat
Species in this genus inhabit rainforest or rainforest margins, from Borneo east to New Guinea, and from the Philippines south to eastern Australia.

Species
The following list includes all 19 species of Rhysotoechia that are accepted by both Plants of the World Online and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.


 * Rhysotoechia applanata - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia bifoliolata - Queensland, New South Wales
 * R. b. subsp. nitida - Queensland
 * Rhysotoechia bilocularis - Western New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia congesta - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia elongata - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia etmanii - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia flavescens - Queensland
 * Rhysotoechia florulenta - Queensland
 * Rhysotoechia gracilipes - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia grandifolia - Borneo, Maluku Islands
 * Rhysotoechia koordersii - Borneo, Sulawesi
 * Rhysotoechia longipaniculata - Western New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia momiensis - Western New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia mortoniana - Queensland
 * Rhysotoechia multiscapa - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia obtusa - Papua New Guinea
 * Rhysotoechia ramiflora - Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi
 * Rhysotoechia robertsonii - Papua New Guinea, Queensland
 * Rhysotoechia welzeniana - Papua New Guinea