Cyanotis
| Cyanotis | |
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| Cyanotis somaliensis | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Commelinales |
| Family: | Commelinaceae |
| Subfamily: | Commelinoideae |
| Tribe: | Tradescantieae |
| Subtribe: | Cyanotinae |
| Genus: | CyanotisD.Don |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cyanotis is a genus of mainly perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described in 1825. Species of the genus are native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia.[2][3][4][5][6]
Species
51 species are accepted.[1]
- Cyanotis adscendensDalzell – India, Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis ake-assiiBrenan – Mali, Ivory Coast
- Cyanotis angustaC.B.Clarke – West Africa
- Cyanotis arachnoideaC.B.Clarke – tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Indochina
- Cyanotis arcotensisR.S.Rao – southern India
- Cyanotis axillaris(L.) D.Don ex Sweet – Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Northern Australia
- Cyanotis beddomei(Hook.f.) Erhardt, Götz & Seybold – southern India
- Cyanotis burmannianaWight – India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Cyanotis caespitosaKotschy & Peyr. – tropical Africa
- Cyanotis ceylanicaHassk. – Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis cristata(L.) D.Don – Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia, Socotra, Mauritius, Java, Philippines
- Cyanotis cucullata(Roth) Kunth – southern India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Cyanotis cupricolaJ.Duvign. – Zaïre
- Cyanotis deccanensisYugandhar, Sivaram., Savithr. & L.J.Singh – southern India (Andhra Pradesh)
- Cyanotis dybowskiiHua – Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
- Cyanotis epiphyticaBlatt. – southern India
- Cyanotis fasciculata(B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult. & Schult.f. – Indian Subcontinent
- Cyanotis flexuosaC.B.Clarke – Huíla region of Angola
- Cyanotis foecundaDC. ex Hassk – central + eastern Africa and Yemen
- Cyanotis ganganensisSchnell – Guinea
- Cyanotis grandidieriH.Perrier – Madagascar
- Cyanotis hepperiBrenan – Nigeria
- Cyanotis hombleiDe Wild. – Zaïre
- Cyanotis karlianaHassk. – southern India
- Cyanotis kawakamiiHayata – southern Taiwan
- Cyanotis lanataBenth. – tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
- Cyanotis lanceolataWight – southern India and Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis lapidosaE.Phillips – South Africa, Eswatini
- Cyanotis longifoliaBenth. – tropical Africa
- Cyanotis loureiroana(Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr. – Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam
- Cyanotis lourensisSchnell – Guinea
- Cyanotis moluccana(Roxb.) Merr. – Malesia and New Guinea
- Cyanotis nyctitropaDeflers – Yemen and Saudi Arabia
- Cyanotis obtusa(Trimen) Trimen - southern India and Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis pachyrrhizaOberm. – Transvaal
- Cyanotis paludosaBrenan – Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Cyanotis pedunculataMerr. – Leyte Island in Philippines
- Cyanotis pilosaSchult. & Schult.f. – southern India and Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis polyrrhizaHochst. ex Hassk. – Ethiopia
- Cyanotis repensFaden & D.M.Cameron – Zaïre, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Gabon
- Cyanotis reutianaBeauverd – southern India
- Cyanotis robustaOberm. – Transvaal, Namibia
- Cyanotis scaberulaHutch. – Guinea
- Cyanotis somaliensisC.B.Clarke – Somalia
- Cyanotis speciosa(L. f.) Hassk. – central + southern Africa and Madagascar
- Cyanotis thwaitesiiHassk. – India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Cyanotis tuberosa(Roxb.) Schult. & Schult.f. – western India
- Cyanotis vaga(Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f. – tropical Africa, Yemen, Himalayas, southern China, Indochina, and Java
- Cyanotis villosa(Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f. – southern India and Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis viviparaDalzell – southern India
Gallery
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cyanotis.
- Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Cyanotis". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.