Alonsoa

Alonsoa (mask flower) is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae. The genus includes both herbaceous and shrubby species.

Alonsoa
Alonsoa meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Scrophulariaceae
Tribe:	Hemimerideae
Genus:	Alonsoa Ruiz & Pav.
Species
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The genus is native to Central and western South America, from south Mexico to Peru and Chile. At least two species are native to South Africa.^[1] Alonsoas grow to around 30–100 cm tall, and have small, broadly oval, serrated leaves. The red, orange, yellow, white or occasionally blue flowers are borne on a loose terminal raceme.

The alonsoa is named after Zenón de Alonso Acosta, a Spanish official in Bogota, Colombia.^[2][3]

Species

• Alonsoa acutifolia Ruiz & Pav.^[4]
• Alonsoa albiflora G.Nicholson
• Alonsoa auriculata Diels
• Alonsoa caulialata Ruiz & Pav.
• Alonsoa hirsuta (Spreng.) Steud.
• Alonsoa honoraria Grau
• Alonsoa linearis (Jacq.) Ruiz & Pav.
• Alonsoa meridionalis (L.f.) Kuntze
• Alonsoa minor Edwin
• Alonsoa pallida Edwin
• Alonsoa peduncularis (Kuntze) Wettst.
• Alonsoa quadrifolia G.Don
• Alonsoa serrata Pennell