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Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas It is native to Madagascar. The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland, The Latin specific epithet of madagascariensis means "coming from Madagascar", and both genus and species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.73 on pages 805–806 in (1986 publ. 1987).

Lourtella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. The only species is Lourtella resinosa S.A.Graham, Baas & Tobe. It is native to Peru and Bolivia. The genus name of Lourtella is in honour of Alicia Lourteig (1913–2003), an Argentine and French botanist, who was a world specialist in Oxalidaceae plants. The Latin specific epithet of resinosa refers to resinous, from resina. Both genus and species were first described and published in Syst. Bot. Vol.12 on pages 519-520 in 1987. Lourtella is allied to a botanical cluster of four other genera: Adenaria,