title: Gmelina
text: # 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
  