Cyanotis is a genus of mainly
perennial plant
In horticulture, the term perennial (''wikt:per-#Prefix, per-'' + ''wikt:-ennial#Suffix, -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annual plant, annuals and biennial plant, biennials. It has thus been d ...
s in the family
Commelinaceae
Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of five families in the order Commelinales and by far the largest of these with about 731 kn ...
, first described in 1825. Species of the genus are native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia.
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Species
51 species are accepted.[
* '' 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
''Cyanotis axillaris'' is a species of perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae
Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of fiv ...
'' (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 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 deccanensis'' – southern India (Andhra Pradesh)
* '' Cyanotis dybowskii'' Hua – Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
* '' Cyanotis epiphytica'' – southern India
* '' 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 and 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 kawakamii'' – southern Taiwan
* '' Cyanotis lanata'' Benth. – tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
* '' Cyanotis lanceolata'' – southern India and Sri Lanka
* '' Cyanotis lapidosa'' E.Phillips – South Africa, Eswatini
* '' Cyanotis longifolia'' Benth. – tropical Africa
* '' Cyanotis loureiroana'' (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr. – Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam
* '' Cyanotis lourensis'' Schnell – Guinea
* '' Cyanotis moluccana'' (Roxb.) Merr. – Malesia and New Guinea
* '' Cyanotis nyctitropa'' Deflers – Yemen and Saudi Arabia
* '' Cyanotis obtusa'' (Trimen) Trimen - southern India and Sri Lanka
* '' Cyanotis pachyrrhiza'' Oberm. – Transvaal
* '' Cyanotis paludosa'' Brenan – Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
* '' Cyanotis pedunculata'' Merr. – Leyte Island in Philippines
* '' Cyanotis pilosa'' Schult. & Schult.f. – southern India and Sri Lanka
* '' Cyanotis polyrrhiza'' Hochst. ex Hassk. – Ethiopia
* '' 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 and 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, and Java
* '' Cyanotis villosa'' (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f. – southern India and Sri Lanka
* '' Cyanotis vivipara'' Dalzell – southern India
Gallery
Image:Cyanotis cristata (Nabhali) in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 0126.jpg, '' Cyanotis cristata'' in Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
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Image:Cyanotis fasciculata (Nilwanti) in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 9040.jpg, '' Cyanotis fasciculata'' in Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
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References
External links
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Commelinaceae genera
Taxa named by David Don