Nouhuysia

Nouhuysia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae. It includes three species endemic to New Guinea.

• Nouhuysia elaeocarpoides
• Nouhuysia novoguineensis
• Nouhuysia pachyphylla

The genus was described by Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach in 1912, and named after Jan Willem van Nouhuys (1869–1963), a Dutch naval officer and seafarer and director at two museums in Rotterdam who collected plants in New Guinea.

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