Stauranthera

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Stauranthera
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Subfamily: Didymocarpoideae
Genus: Stauranthera
Benth.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
List
    • Anomorhegmia Meisn.
    • Cyananthus Griff.
    • Miquelia Blume
    • Quintilia Endl.

Stauranthera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Bangladesh, the Nicobar Islands, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, south-central and southeast China (including Hainan), Southeast Asia, and Malesia to New Guinea.[2] It is very close morphologically and genetically to Loxonia.[3]

Species[]

Currently accepted species include:[2]

  • Hallier f.
  • (Blume) Merr.
  • Benth.
  • Hallier f.
  • B.L.Burtt
  • S.Moore
  • (Griff.) C.B.Clarke

References[]

  1. ^ Scroph. Ind.: 57 (1835)
  2. ^ a b c "Stauranthera Benth". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  3. ^ Mayer, V.; Moller, M.; Perret, M.; Weber, A. (2003). "Phylogenetic position and generic differentiation of Epithemateae (Gesneriaceae) inferred from plastid DNA sequence data". American Journal of Botany. 90 (2): 321–329. doi:10.3732/ajb.90.2.321. PMID 21659123.
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