# Premna

Premna is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

## Species

* Premna acuminata R.Br. - Australia, New Guinea
* Premna acutata W.W.Sm. - southwestern China (Yunnan, Sichuan)
* Premna alba H.J.Lam - Palau
* Premna ambongensis Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna amplectens Wall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar
* Premna angolensis Gürke - tropical Africa
* Premna angustiflora H.J.Lam - Palau
* Premna annulata H.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
* Premna aureolepidota Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna balakrishnanii A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
* Premna balansae Dop - Vietnam
* Premna barbata Wall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
* Premna bengalensis C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
* Premna bequaertii Moldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre
* Premna bracteata Wall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar
* Premna cambodiana Dop - Cambodia, Vietnam
* Premna cavaleriei H.Lév - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi)
* Premna chevalieri Dop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan, Yunnan)
* Premna chrysoclada (Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau
* Premna collinsae Craib - Thailand
* Premna confinis C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Guangxi, Yunnan)
* Premna congolensis Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda
* Premna cordifolia Roxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya
* Premna coriacea C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands
* Premna corymbosa Rottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Premna crassa Hand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)
* Premna debiana A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh
* Premna decaryi Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna decurrens H.J.Lam - Indonesia
* Premna discolor Verdc. - Kenya
* Premna dubia Craib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
* Premna esculenta Roxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
* Premna fohaiensis C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
* Premna fordii Dunn - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan)
* Premna fulva Craib - Indochina, Indonesia, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)
* Premna garrettii H.R.Fletcher - Thailand
* Premna glaberrima Wight - southern India
* Premna glandulosa Hand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan)
* Premna gracillima Verdc. - Kenya, Tanzania
* Premna grandifolia A.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = Premna hutchinsonii
* Premna grossa Wall. ex Schauer - Myanmar
* Premna guillauminii Moldenke - New Caledonia
* Premna hainanensis Chun & F.C.How - China (Hainan)
* Premna hans-joachimii Verdc. - Tanzania
* Premna henryana (Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
* Premna herbacea Roxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia
* Premna hildebrandtii Gürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
* Premna hispida Benth. - West Africa
* Premna humbertii Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna hutchinsonii Moldenke - Ivory Coast
* Premna interrupta Wall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina
* Premna jalpaiguriana T.K.Paul - West Bengal
* Premna khasiana C.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand
* Premna lepidella Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna ligustroides Hemsl - China (Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan)
* Premna longiacuminata Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna longifolia Roxb. - Himalayas
* Premna longipetiolata Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna lucens A.Chev. - West Africa
* Premna macrophylla Wall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina
* Premna madagascariensis Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna mariannarum Schauer - Mariana Islands
* Premna matadiensis Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola
* Premna maxima T.C.E. Fr. - Kenya
* Premna mekongensis W.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan)
* Premna micrantha Schauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh
* Premna microphylla Turcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang)
* Premna milleflora C.B.Clarke - Assam
* Premna milnei Baker - Nigeria, Bioko
* Premna minor Domin - Queensland
* Premna mollissima Roth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, Philippines
* Premna mooiensis (H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
* Premna mortehanii De Wild - Zaïre
* Premna mundanthuraiensis A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
* Premna neurophylla Chiov. - Ethiopia
* Premna oblongata Miq. - Indonesia, Philippines
* Premna odorata Blanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in Florida
* Premna oligantha C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
* Premna oligotricha Baker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
* Premna orangeana Capuron - Madagascar
* Premna paisehensis C.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi)
* Premna pallescens Ridl.- Borneo, Indonesia
* Premna parasitica Blume - Indonesia
* Premna parvilimba C.Pei - China (Yunnan)
* Premna paucinervis (C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
* Premna paulobarbata H.J.Lam - Mariana Islands
* Premna perplexans Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna perrieri Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna pinguis C.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java
* Premna polita Hiern - Angola
* Premna procumbens Moon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
* Premna protrusa A.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji
* Premna puberula Pamp. - China (Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan)
* Premna pubescens Blume - Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island
* Premna puerensis Y.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan)
* Premna punduana Wall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
* Premna punicea C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
* Premna purpurascens Thwaites - Sri Lanka
* Premna quadrifolia Schumach. & Thonn. - West Africa
* Premna rabakensis Moldenke - Cambodia
* Premna regularis H.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea
* Premna repens H.R.Fletcher - Thailand
* Premna resinosa (Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India
* Premna richardsiae Moldenke - Tanzania
* Premna rubroglandulosa C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
* Premna scandens Roxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina
* Premna schimperi Engl - East Africa
* Premna schliebenii Werderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique
* Premna scoriarum W.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar
* Premna senensis Klotzsch - eastern + central Africa
* Premna serrata H.R.Fletcher - Thailand
* Premna serratifolia L. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
* Premna siamensis H.R.Fletcher - Thailand
* Premna stenobotrys Merr. - Vietnam
* Premna steppicola Hand.-Mazz. - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
* †Premna sterculiifolia King & Gamble - Malaya but extinct
* Premna straminicaulis C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
* Premna subcapitata Rehder - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
* Premna sulphurea (Baker) Gürke - Angola
* Premna sunyiensis C.Pei - China (Guangdong)
* Premna szemaoensis Pei - China (Yunnan)
* Premna tahitensis J.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific
* Premna tanganyikensis Moldenke - Tanzania, Mozambique
* Premna tapintzeana Dop - China (Yunnan)
* Premna tenii C.Pei - China (Yunnan)
* Premna thorelii Dop - Laos
* Premna thwaitesii C.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka
* Premna tomentosa Willd. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands
* Premna trichostoma Miq. - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea
* Premna urticifolia Rehder - China (Yunnan)
* Premna velutina Gürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
* Premna venulosa Moldenke - Madagascar
* Premna wightiana Schauer - India, Sri Lanka
* Premna wui Boufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan)
* Premna yunnanensis W.W.Sm - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)