Horsfieldia is a name of plant genus native to South East Asia.

The name is also a synonym for other plants from genera in the families Araliaceae

Araliaceae

Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...

 and Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of ca. 150 genera and ca. 3,200 species in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.Most...

. The genus consists of evergreen

Evergreen forest

An temperate evergreen forest is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round. Such forests exist in the tropics primarily as broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate and boreal latitudes primarily as coniferous evergreens.-Tropical evergreen...

 trees. The species have dispersed or distichous leaves which are thinly leathery, often glabrous. The tertiary veins on the leaves are reticulate and often obscure. Flowers are in clusters with caducous bracts and no bractioles. The flowers are generally pedicillate with lobed perianth

Perianth

The term perianth has two similar but separate meanings in botany:* In flowering plants, the perianth are the outer, sterile whorls of a flower...

 and hairy anthers. Ovaries are ovoid and style is absent.

The genus consists of about a 100 species and is distributed across South Asia from India to Philippines, Papua New Guinea.

List of species