Genus of plants
Lelya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It only contains one known species, Lelya osteocarpa 
Its native range is Tropical Africa. It is found in Angola, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zaïre.
The genus name of "Lelya" is in honour of Hugh Vandervaes Lely (1891–1947), an English botanist and forester in Nigeria. The Latin specific epithet of "osteocarpa" is derived from 2 words, "osteo" from the Greek word meaning bone and also "carpa" is derived from "carpus" meaning fruit.
Both genus and species were first described and published in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk., Sect. 2, Vol.48 (Issue 2) on page 181 in 1952.
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