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.

1. Species

2. Premna acuminata R.Br. - Australia, New Guinea

3. Premna acutata W.W.Sm. - southwestern China (Yunnan, Sichuan)

4. Premna alba H.J.Lam - Palau

5. Premna ambongensis Moldenke - Madagascar

6. Premna amplectens Wall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar

7. Premna angolensis Gürke - tropical Africa

8. Premna angustiflora H.J.Lam - Palau

9. Premna annulata H.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam

10. Premna aureolepidota Moldenke - Madagascar

11. Premna balakrishnanii A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu

12. Premna balansae Dop - Vietnam

13. Premna barbata Wall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar

14. Premna bengalensis C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam

15. Premna bequaertii Moldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre

16. Premna bracteata Wall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar

17. Premna cambodiana Dop - Cambodia, Vietnam

18. Premna cavaleriei H.Lév - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi)

19. Premna chevalieri Dop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan, Yunnan)

20. Premna chrysoclada (Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau

21. Premna collinsae Craib - Thailand

22. Premna confinis C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Guangxi, Yunnan)

23. Premna congolensis Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda

24. Premna cordifolia Roxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya

25. Premna coriacea C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands

26. Premna corymbosa Rottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

27. Premna crassa Hand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)

28. Premna debiana A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh

29. Premna decaryi Moldenke - Madagascar

30. Premna decurrens H.J.Lam - Indonesia

31. Premna discolor Verdc. - Kenya

32. Premna dubia Craib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

33. Premna esculenta Roxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand

34. Premna fohaiensis C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)

35. Premna fordii Dunn - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan)

36. Premna fulva Craib - Indochina, Indonesia, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)

37. Premna garrettii H.R.Fletcher - Thailand

38. Premna glaberrima Wight - southern India

39. Premna glandulosa Hand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan)

40. Premna gracillima Verdc. - Kenya, Tanzania

41. Premna grandifolia A.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = Premna hutchinsonii

42. Premna grossa Wall. ex Schauer - Myanmar

43. Premna guillauminii Moldenke - New Caledonia

44. Premna hainanensis Chun & F.C.How - China (Hainan)

45. Premna hans-joachimii Verdc. - Tanzania

46. Premna henryana (Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

47. Premna herbacea Roxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia

48. Premna hildebrandtii Gürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

49. Premna hispida Benth. - West Africa

50. Premna humbertii Moldenke - Madagascar

51. Premna hutchinsonii Moldenke - Ivory Coast

52. Premna interrupta Wall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina

53. Premna jalpaiguriana T.K.Paul - West Bengal

54. Premna khasiana C.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand

55. Premna lepidella Moldenke - Madagascar

56. Premna ligustroides Hemsl - China (Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan)

57. Premna longiacuminata Moldenke - Madagascar

58. Premna longifolia Roxb. - Himalayas

59. Premna longipetiolata Moldenke - Madagascar

60. Premna lucens A.Chev. - West Africa

61. Premna macrophylla Wall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina

62. Premna madagascariensis Moldenke - Madagascar

63. Premna mariannarum Schauer - Mariana Islands

64. Premna matadiensis Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola

65. Premna maxima T.C.E. Fr. - Kenya

66. Premna mekongensis W.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan)

67. Premna micrantha Schauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh

68. Premna microphylla Turcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang)

69. Premna milleflora C.B.Clarke - Assam

70. Premna milnei Baker - Nigeria, Bioko

71. Premna minor Domin - Queensland

72. Premna mollissima Roth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, Philippines

73. Premna mooiensis (H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa

74. Premna mortehanii De Wild - Zaïre

75. Premna mundanthuraiensis A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu

76. Premna neurophylla Chiov. - Ethiopia

77. Premna oblongata Miq. - Indonesia, Philippines

78. Premna odorata Blanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in Florida

79. Premna oligantha C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)

80. Premna oligotricha Baker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania

81. Premna orangeana Capuron - Madagascar

82. Premna paisehensis C.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi)

83. Premna pallescens Ridl.- Borneo, Indonesia

84. Premna parasitica Blume - Indonesia

85. Premna parvilimba C.Pei - China (Yunnan)

86. Premna paucinervis (C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu

87. Premna paulobarbata H.J.Lam - Mariana Islands

88. Premna perplexans Moldenke - Madagascar

89. Premna perrieri Moldenke - Madagascar

90. Premna pinguis C.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java

91. Premna polita Hiern - Angola

92. Premna procumbens Moon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

93. Premna protrusa A.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji

94. Premna puberula Pamp. - China (Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan)

95. Premna pubescens Blume - Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island

96. Premna puerensis Y.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan)

97. Premna punduana Wall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh

98. Premna punicea C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)

99. Premna purpurascens Thwaites - Sri Lanka

100. Premna quadrifolia Schumach. & Thonn. - West Africa

101. Premna rabakensis Moldenke - Cambodia

102. Premna regularis H.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea

103. Premna repens H.R.Fletcher - Thailand

104. Premna resinosa (Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India

105. Premna richardsiae Moldenke - Tanzania

106. Premna rubroglandulosa C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)

107. Premna scandens Roxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina

108. Premna schimperi Engl - East Africa

109. Premna schliebenii Werderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique

110. Premna scoriarum W.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar

111. Premna senensis Klotzsch - eastern + central Africa

112. Premna serrata H.R.Fletcher - Thailand

113. Premna serratifolia L. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans

114. Premna siamensis H.R.Fletcher - Thailand

115. Premna stenobotrys Merr. - Vietnam

116. Premna steppicola Hand.-Mazz. - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

117. †Premna sterculiifolia King & Gamble - Malaya but extinct

118. Premna straminicaulis C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)

119. Premna subcapitata Rehder - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

120. Premna sulphurea (Baker) Gürke - Angola

121. Premna sunyiensis C.Pei - China (Guangdong)

122. Premna szemaoensis Pei - China (Yunnan)

123. Premna tahitensis J.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific

124. Premna tanganyikensis Moldenke - Tanzania, Mozambique

125. Premna tapintzeana Dop - China (Yunnan)

126. Premna tenii C.Pei - China (Yunnan)

127. Premna thorelii Dop - Laos

128. Premna thwaitesii C.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka

129. Premna tomentosa Willd. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands

130. Premna trichostoma Miq. - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea

131. Premna urticifolia Rehder - China (Yunnan)

132. Premna velutina Gürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique

133. Premna venulosa Moldenke - Madagascar

134. Premna wightiana Schauer - India, Sri Lanka

135. Premna wui Boufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan)

136. Premna yunnanensis W.W.Sm - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

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