Schaueria

Schaueria
	The golden plume () is widely cultivated as ornamentals
	from Bahia, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Acanthaceae
Subfamily:	Acanthoideae
Tribe:	Justicieae
Genus:	Schaueria; Nees
Type species
	; Link & Otto
Species
	See text

Schaueria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yellow bracts. They are found mainly in rain forests, semi-deciduous mountain forests, and restingas. They are pollinated by bees and hummingbirds.^[1]

The genus was established by the German naturalist Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1838.^[2] It is considered monophyletic and includes fourteen species:^[1]^[3]

(syn. Schaueria flavicoma)

(syn. Schaueria lophura)

(syn. Justicia paranaensis)

References[]

^ ^a ^b Ana Luiza A. Côrtes; Alessandro Rapini & Thomas F. Daniel (2015). "The Tetramerium lineage (Acanthaceae: Justicieae) does not support the Pleistocene Arc hypothesis for South American seasonally dry forests". American Journal of Botany. 102 (6): 992–1007. doi:10.3732/ajb.1400558. PMID 26101423.
^ Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1838). Delectus Seminum in horto botanico Vratislaviensi collectorum a. 1838. Breslau.
^ Ana Luiza A. Côrtes; Thomas F. Daniel & Alessandro Rapini (2016). "Taxonomic revision of the genus Schaueria (Acanthaceae)". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 302 (7): 819–851. doi:10.1007/s00606-016-1301-y. S2CID 16617216.

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