Platystemma

Platystemma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.^[2]

Platystemma
Platystemma violoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Platystemma Wall. (1831)
Species:	P. violoides
Binomial name
Platystemma violoides Wall. (1831)
Synonyms[1]
Chirita violoides (Wall.) M.R.Almeida (2001) Didymocarpus hamosa Wall. (1829), not validly publ. Platystemma majus Wall. (1831) Roettlera hamosa (Wall.) Kuntze (1891), not validly publ. Rottlera hamosa Baill. (1894)

It contains a single species, Platystemma violoides, an annual native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, south-central China (Yunnan), and Peninsular Malaysia.^[2]