Cyanotis

Cyanotis
Cyanotis somaliensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Commelinales
Family:	Commelinaceae
Subfamily:	Commelinoideae
Tribe:	Tradescantieae
Subtribe:	Cyanotinae
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

Species[1]

• Cyanotis adscendens Dalzell - India, Sri Lanka
• Cyanotis ake-assii Brenan - Mali, Ivory Coast
• Cyanotis angusta C.B.Clarke - West Africa
• Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke - tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Indochina
• Cyanotis arcotensis 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
• Cyanotis burmanniana Wight - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
• Cyanotis caespitosa Kotschy & Peyr. - tropical Africa
• Cyanotis cerifolia R.S.Rao & Kammathy - southern India
• Cyanotis ceylanica Hassk. - 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 cupricola J.Duvign. - Zaïre
• Cyanotis dybowskii Hua - Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
• Cyanotis fasciculata (B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult. & Schult.f. - Indian Subcontinent
• Cyanotis flexuosa C.B.Clarke - Huíla region of Angola
• Cyanotis foecunda DC. ex Hassk - central + eastern Africa, Yemen
• Cyanotis ganganensis Schnell - Guinea
• Cyanotis grandidieri H.Perrier - Madagascar
• Cyanotis hepperi Brenan - Nigeria
• Cyanotis homblei De Wild. - Zaïre
• Cyanotis karliana Hassk. - southern India
• Cyanotis lanata Benth. - tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
• Cyanotis lapidosa Phil. - South Africa, Eswatini
• Cyanotis longifolia Benth. - tropical Africa
• Cyanotis loureiroana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr - Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam
• Cyanotis lourensis Schnell - Guinea
• Cyanotis nilagirica Hassk. - southern India
• Cyanotis nyctitropa Deflers - Yemen, Saudi Arabia
• Cyanotis obtusa (Trimen) Trimen - southern India, Sri Lanka
• Cyanotis pachyrrhiza Oberm. - Transvaal
• Cyanotis paludosa Brenan - Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
• Cyanotis papilionacea (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India
• Cyanotis pedunculata Merr. - Leyte Island in Philippines
• Cyanotis pilosa Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India, Sri Lanka
• Cyanotis polyrrhiza Hochst. ex Hassk. - Ethiopia
• Cyanotis racemosa B.Heyne ex Hassk. - southern India, Sri Lanka
• Cyanotis repens Faden & D.M.Cameron - Zaïre, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Gabon
• Cyanotis reutiana Beauverd - southern India
• Cyanotis robusta Oberm. - Transvaal, Namibia
• Cyanotis scaberula Hutch. - Guinea
• Cyanotis somaliensis C.B.Clarke - Somalia
• Cyanotis speciosa (L. f.) Hassk. - central + southern Africa, Madagascar
• Cyanotis thwaitesii Hassk. - 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, Java
• Cyanotis vaginata Wight - southern India
• Cyanotis villosa (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India, Sri Lanka

Gallery

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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. ISBN 0-621-02854-1
   , 1975
4. ^ Faden, R. (2012). Commelinaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-244.
5. ISBN 1-874907-03-X

External links

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• Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Cyanotis". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.