''Sutera'' (plant)

Sutera
Sutera cordata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Lamiales
Family:Scrophulariaceae
Tribe:Limoselleae
Genus:Sutera
Roth
Species

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Sutera is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants and shrubs of the family Scrophulariaceae mainly confined to Africa.

Taxonomy

Sutera cordata was named Manulea cordata in 1800 by Thunberg. Bentham renamed it Chaenostoma in 1836, Kuntze changed it to Sutera in 1891 on the grounds of synonymy. In 1994 Hilliard considered the two names subgenera of Sutera, but in 2005 Kornhall and Bremer separated the two again, placing S. cordata in Chaenostoma.[1]

Selected species:

  • Sutera calcina
  • Sutera cordata syn. Sutera diffusus, Chaenostoma cordatum - Bacopa
  • Sutera floribunda
  • Sutera grandiflora

References

  1. ↑ Kornhall and Bremer: New circumscription of the tribe Limoselleae (Scrophulariaceae) that includes the taxa of the tribe Manuleeae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society Volume 146 Issue 4, Pages 453 - 467 2004
a sutera cordata plant on a balcony
  • Pretoria National Botanical Garden: Chaenostoma cordata
  • Kristo Pienaar: South African 'What Flower Is That'? Struik, 2003. ISBN 1-86872-441-7 ISBN 978-1-86872-441-3
  • Aluka: Sutera
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