Foetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.[1][2]

Foetidia
Foetidia mauritiana
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
Subfamily: Foetidioideae
Genus: 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.[3] It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.[4]

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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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