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.
Species
51 species are accepted.- 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 D.Don ex Sweet – Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Northern Australia
- Cyanotis beddomei 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 D.Don – Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia, Socotra, Mauritius, Java, Philippines
- Cyanotis cucullata Kunth – southern India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Cyanotis cupricola J.Duvign. – Zaïre
- Cyanotis deccanensis – southern India
- Cyanotis dybowskii Hua – Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
- Cyanotis epiphytica – southern India
- Cyanotis fasciculata 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 – southern Taiwan
- Cyanotis lanata Benth. – tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
- Cyanotis lanceolata – southern India and Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis lapidosa E.Phillips – South Africa, Eswatini
- Cyanotis longifolia Benth. – tropical Africa
- Cyanotis loureiroana Merr. – Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam
- Cyanotis lourensis Schnell – Guinea
- Cyanotis moluccana Merr. – Malesia and New Guinea
- Cyanotis nyctitropa Deflers – Yemen and Saudi Arabia
- Cyanotis obtusa 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 Hassk. – central + southern Africa and Madagascar
- Cyanotis thwaitesii Hassk. – India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Cyanotis tuberosa Schult. & Schult.f. – western India
- Cyanotis vaga Schult. & Schult.f. – tropical Africa, Yemen, Himalayas, southern China, Indochina, and Java
- Cyanotis villosa Schult. & Schult.f. – southern India and Sri Lanka
- Cyanotis vivipara Dalzell – southern India