Gmelina
# Gmelina

Gmelina is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. It consists of about 35 species in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Southeast Asia, India and a few in Africa. Some species such as G. arborea have been planted and/or become naturalised in India, Africa and Australia. It was named by Carl Linnaeus in honour of botanist Johann Georg Gmelin.

## Species

This listing draws from de Kok's 2012 revision of this genus, and additional sources including IPNI, APNI and the Flora of China.

* Gmelina arborea Roxb. ex Sm. – India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, S. China, (mainland southeast Asia region)
* Gmelina asiatica L. – India, Sri Lanka, Burma, China, Thailand, Vietnam, (southeast Asia)
* Gmelina australis de Kok – Northern Territory, Australia
* Gmelina basifilum de Kok – New Guinea, New Britain
* Gmelina chinensis Benth. – S. China, Laos, Vietnam
* Gmelina dalrympleana (F.Muell.) H.J.Lam – Wet tropics & Cape York, Australia, New Guinea
* Gmelina delavayana Dop – Sichuan & Yunnan, China endemic
* Gmelina elliptica Sm. – India, Burma, S. China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, (SE. Asia)
* Gmelina evoluta (Däniker) Mabb. – New Caledonia
* Gmelina fasciculiflora Benth., Northern white beech – Wet Tropics Australia
* Gmelina hainanensis Oliver – S. China, Vietnam
* Gmelina hollrungii de Kok – Moluccas, New Guinea, NT, N. Qld & WA, Solomon Is.
* Gmelina lecomtei Dop – Yunnan, Kwantung, Hainan, China, Laos, Vietnam
* Gmelina ledermannii H.J.Lam – New Guinea
* Gmelina leichhardtii (F.Muell.) Benth., White beech – eastern NSW & QLD, Australia
* Gmelina lepidota Scheff. – Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain
* Gmelina lignum-vitreum Guillaumin – endangered New Caledonia endemic
* Gmelina magnifica Mabb. – New Caledonia
* Gmelina moluccana (Blume) Backer ex K.Heyne – Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Is.
* Gmelina neocaledonica S.Moore – New Caledonia
* Gmelina palawensis H.J.Lam

   * subsp. celebica (Moldenke) de Kok – Sulawesi

   * subsp. palawensis – Palau Is.
* Gmelina papuana Bakh. – New Guinea
* Gmelina peltata de Kok – Solomon Is.
* Gmelina philippensis Cham. – Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand
* Gmelina racemosa (Lour.) Merr.; syn.: G. hainanensis Oliver – Hainan Island & southern China, Vietnam
* Gmelina salomonensis Bakh. – Solomon Is. endemic
* Gmelina schlechteri H.J.Lam – New Guinea
* Gmelina sessilis C.T.White & W.D.Francis – New Guinea, New Britain
* Gmelina smithii Moldenke – New Guinea
* Gmelina szechwanensis K. Yao – Sichuan China, de Kok did not see the type specimen but considers this within G. philippinensis
* Gmelina tholicola Mabb. – New Caledonia
* Gmelina uniflora Stapf – Borneo endemic
* Gmelina vitiensis (Seem.) A.C.Sm. – Fiji endemic
