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''Lindenbergia'' is a genus of
herbaceous plant Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition o ...
s in the order
Lamiales The Lamiales (also known as the mint order) are an order of flowering plants in the asterids clade of the Eudicots. Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification the order consists of 24 families, and includes about 23,810 species ...
and in the broomrape family
Orobanchaceae Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family (biology), family of mostly parasitic plants of the order (biology), order Lamiales, with about 90 genus, genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., ''Pedicularis'', ''Rhinanthus'', ...
. It is one of the few genera of the family which are not parasitic. It contains about 15 species found from northeast Africa across Asia to the Philippines, and is most abundant in India.


Taxonomy

The genus ''Lindenbergia'' was erected by Johann Lehmann in 1829. It is named in honor of Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg, a lawyer and bryologist from Germany. ''Lindenbergia'' was originally placed in the family
Scrophulariaceae The Scrophulariaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the figwort family. The plants are annual and perennial herbs, as well as shrubs. Flowers have bilateral (zygomorphic) or rarely radial (actinomorphic) symmetry. The Scr ...
.
Molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
studies have caused that family to be split up, with many genera, including ''Lindenbergia'', placed in a greatly expanded family Orobanchaceae. ''Lindenbergia'' has been placed in the tribe Lindenbergieae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)
"Orobanchaceae"
''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website''. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
one of two basal clades in the family Orobanchaceae that are not parasitic:


Species

,
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accepted the following species: *'' Lindenbergia arabica'' (S.Moore) Hartl *'' Lindenbergia awashensis'' Hjertson *'' Lindenbergia fengkaiensis'' R.H.Miau & Q.Y.Cen *'' Lindenbergia fruticosa'' Benth. *'' Lindenbergia grandiflora'' Benth. *'' Lindenbergia griffithii'' Hook.f. *'' Lindenbergia hookeri'' C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f. *'' Lindenbergia indica'' (L.) Vatke *'' Lindenbergia luchunensis'' D.D.Tao & Y.M.Shui *'' Lindenbergia macrostachya'' (Benth.) Benth. *'' Lindenbergia muraria'' (Roxb. ex D.Don) Brühl, syn. ''Lindenbergia urticifolia'' Lehm. *'' Lindenbergia philippensis'' (Cham. & Schltdl.) Benth. *'' Lindenbergia serpyllifolia'' Hjertson *'' Lindenbergia sokotrana'' Vierh. *'' Lindenbergia titensis'' Sikdar & Maiti


References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q3311932, from2=Q21221895 Orobanchaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann