''Gibasis'' is a

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of flowering plants within the

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 ...

family, first described in 1837. It is native to the

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from

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and the

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south to

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, with most of the species native to

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/ref> It is closely related to the genus ''

Tradescantia ''Tradescantia'' () is a genus of 85 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by many com ...

'' and some of the species used to be classified as tradescantias in the past, for instance ''

Gibasis geniculata ''Gibasis geniculata'' is a trailing plant in the family Commelinaceae, native to Mexico and tropical America. The cultivated plant commonly known as Tahitian bridal veil is often mis-labelled as ''Gibasis geniculata'', however its true species ...

'' as ''Tradescantia geniculata''.

Species

The genus contains the following species: * '' Gibasis chihuahuensis'' (Standl.) Rohweder – Chihuahua, Durango, Michoacán * '' Gibasis consobrina'' D.R.Hunt – Oaxaca, Veracruz * ''

'' (Jacq.) Rohweder – from Durango + San Luis Potosí south to Argentina; Wilson County in south-central Texas * '' Gibasis gypsophila'' B.L.Turner – Nuevo León * '' Gibasis hintoniorum'' B.L.Turner – Nuevo León * '' Gibasis karwinskyana'' (Schult. & Schult.f.) Rohweder – Nuevo León, Tamaulipas * '' Gibasis linearis'' (Benth.) Rohweder – Coahuila, Chihuahua * '' Gibasis matudae'' D.R.Hunt ex Stant – Veracruz, Oaxaca * '' Gibasis oaxacana'' D.R.Hunt – Oaxaca * '' Gibasis pauciflora'' (Urb. & Ekman) D.R.Hunt – Cuba, Dominican Republic * '' Gibasis pellucida'' (M.Martens & Galeotti) D.R.Hunt – Central + Southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, naturalized in Florida + TexasBiota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map for ''Gibasis pellucida''
/ref> * '' Gibasis pulchella'' (Kunth) Raf. – Central + Southern Mexico, Colombia * '' Gibasis triflora'' (M.Martens & Galeotti) D.R.Hunt – Guatemala, Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Nayarit, Veracruz * '' Gibasis venustula'' (Kunth) D.R.Hunt – Central + Southern Mexico

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5558666 Commelinaceae genera