title: Rousseauxia
text: # Rousseauxia
  
  Rousseauxia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.
  
  It is native to Madagascar.
  
  The genus name of Rousseauxia is in honour of Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (1753–1838), a French botanist and pteridologist. It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 152 in 1828.
  
  ## Known species
  
  According to Kew:
  
  * Rousseauxia andringitrensis (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia aurata (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia chrysophylla DC.
  * Rousseauxia cistoides Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia dionychoides (Cogn.) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia glauca Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia gracilis Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia humbertii (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia madagascariensis (Cogn.) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia mandrarensis (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia marojejensis Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia minimifolia (Jum. & H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  * Rousseauxia tamatavensis (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  