Cyanotis

Cyanotis is a genus of mainly perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described in 1825. Species of the genus are native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

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]
Amischophacelus R.S.Rao & Kammathy Belosynapsis Hassk. Cyanopogon Welw. ex C.B.Clarke Dalzellia Hassk. 1865 not Wight 1852 Erythrotis Hook.f. Siphostigma Raf. Tonningia Neck. Zygomenes Salisb.

Species

51 species are accepted.^[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 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 Yugandhar, Sivaram., Savithr. & L.J.Singh – southern India (Andhra Pradesh)
• Cyanotis dybowskii Hua – Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
• Cyanotis epiphytica Blatt. – 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 Hayata – southern Taiwan
• Cyanotis lanata Benth. – tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
• Cyanotis lanceolata Wight – 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

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  Cyanotis cristata in Hyderabad, India.
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  Cyanotis fasciculata in Hyderabad, India.