Cyanotis

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Cyanotis
Cyanotis.somalensis.jpg
Cyanotis somaliensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Commelinales
Family: Commelinaceae
Subfamily: Commelinoideae
Tribe:
Subtribe:
Genus: Cyanotis
D.Don
Synonyms[1]
  • Tonningia Neck.
  • Zygomenes Salisb.
  • Siphostigma Raf.
  • Dalzellia Hassk. 1865 not Wight 1852
  • Erythrotis Hook.f.
  • Cyanopogon Welw. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Amischophacelus R.S.Rao & Kammathy

Cyanotis (syn. Tonningia) is a genus of mainly perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described in 1825. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species[1]
  • Dalzell - India, Sri Lanka
  • Brenan - Mali, Ivory Coast
  • C.B.Clarke - West Africa
  • C.B.Clarke - tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Indochina
  • R.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
  • Wight - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
  • Kotschy & Peyr. - tropical Africa
  • R.S.Rao & Kammathy - southern India
  • Hassk. - Sri Lanka
  • Cyanotis cristata(L.) D.Don - Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia, Socotra, Mauritius, Java, Philippines
  • (Roth) Kunth - southern India, Myanmar, Thailand
  • J.Duvign. - Zaïre
  • Hua - Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
  • (B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult. & Schult.f. - Indian Subcontinent
  • C.B.Clarke - Huíla region of Angola
  • DC. ex Hassk - central + eastern Africa, Yemen
  • Schnell - Guinea
  • H.Perrier - Madagascar
  • Brenan - Nigeria
  • De Wild. - Zaïre
  • Hassk. - southern India
  • Benth. - tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
  • Phil. - South Africa, Swaziland
  • Benth. - tropical Africa
  • (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr - Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam
  • Schnell - Guinea
  • Hassk. - southern India
  • Deflers - Yemen, Saudi Arabia
  • (Trimen) Trimen - southern India, Sri Lanka
  • Oberm. - Transvaal
  • Brenan - Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
  • (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India
  • Merr. - Leyte Island in Philippines
  • Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India, Sri Lanka
  • Hochst. ex Hassk. - Ethiopia
  • B.Heyne ex Hassk. - southern India, Sri Lanka
  • Faden & D.M.Cameron - Zaïre, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Gabon
  • Beauverd - southern India
  • Oberm. - Transvaal, Namibia
  • Hutch. - Guinea
  • Cyanotis somaliensis C.B.Clarke - Somalia
  • (L. f.) Hassk. - central + southern Africa, Madagascar
  • Hassk. - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
  • Cyanotis tuberosa (Roxb.) Schult. & Schult.f. - western India
  • (Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f. - tropical Africa, Yemen, Himalayas, southern China, Indochina, Java
  • Wight - southern India
  • (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India, Sri Lanka

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References[]

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 21 蓝耳草属 lan er cao shu Cyanotis D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 45. 1825.
  3. ^ Dyer, R. Allen, “The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants”. ISBN 0-621-02854-1, 1975
  4. ^ Faden, R. (2012). Commelinaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-244.
  5. ^ Arnold T.H., de Wet B.C. (Eds), Plants of Southern Africa: Names & Distribution, MEMOIRS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA No. 62, Pub.National Botanical Institute, South Africa.1993 ISBN 1-874907-03-X

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