Acanthaceae genera

Crabbea is a genus of flowering plants native to eastern and southern Africa. They are generally low-growing perennial herbs. The five-petaled flowers are surrounded by prickly bracts.

Brillantaisia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are native to the African tropics and subtropics, including Madagascar. They may grow from 20 cm to 2 m in height. Their hirsute stems are square in cross-section and their heart-shaped leaves have an opposite arrangement. Their purple or white pea-like flowers produce long, cigar-shaped seed pods. They reproduce easily from seeds or vegetatively. One species, B. lamium, is invasive in Queensland.

Neriacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It contains five species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Jamaica and Panama to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Leptosiphonium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes ten species native to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Chlamydacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Herpetacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes 21 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Honduras to Panama in Central America, and from Ecuador and Peru to Bolivia, northern and eastern Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana in South America.

Chorisochora is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Pseudodicliptera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes four species endemic to Madagascar.

Chileranthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

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Chamaeranthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes four species native to the tropical Americas, including Costa Rica, Peru, and southern and southeastern Brazil.

Stenostephanus is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 94 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from northeastern Mexico to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil.

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Ptyssiglottis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes 38 species native to tropical Asia and Papuasia, ranging from Sri Lanka to Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago.

Jadunia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Pseudocalyx is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Podorungia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Heteradelphia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes two species native to Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and Nigeria in western tropical Africa and to São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea Islands.

Megalochlamys is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Duosperma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Cosmianthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Mellera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Brachystephanus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 21 species native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.

Mirandea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Clistax is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes three species native to Brazil.

Monothecium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Crossandrella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Dicladanthera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Louteridium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Yeatesia is a putative genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, found in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States, from Texas to Florida. Each of its species grows in very different habitats; Yeatesia mabryi is found in hardwood forests in Mexico, Y. platystegia prefers semiarid scrublands in Mexico and Texas, and Y. viridiflora grows in wetter forest bluffs and along water courses in US Gulf Coast states. Molecular evidence shows that Yeatesia is not a monophyletic genus.

Streblacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Bravaisia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes three species of shrubs or trees native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, and Trinidad. Bravaisia berlandieriana (Nees) T.F.Daniel Bravaisia grandiflora Donn.Sm. Bravaisia integerrima (Spreng.) Standl.

Lasiocladus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Petalidium, commonly known as petal-bushes, is a genus of perennial shrubs in the acanthus family. They are native to sandy flats or stony slopes in the drier bush regions of Africa, India and the Mascarene Islands. The majority of species occur in frost-free, summer rainfall regions of southern Africa, and may be found from low to medium altitudes.

Poikilacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 13 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from central Mexico to northern Argentina.

Sphacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes two species endemic to Madagascar.

Ballochia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is endemic to Socotra. It contains the following species: Ballochia amoena Ballochia atrovirgata Ballochia rotundifolia

Suessenguthia is a genus of the Acanthaceae plant family comprising eight species of shrubs with showy, tubular flowers arranged in few-flowered heads. It occurs in the lowlands and Andean foothills of southern Peru, Bolivia, and the Brazilian state of Acre, often growing in small groups along rivers.

Filetia is a genus of flowering plants in the acanthus family (Acanthaceae), found in west Malesia (Sundaland). It is named for Dutch Army physician G.J. Filet, 1825–1891.

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Cyclacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae and tribe Justicieae. The genus consists of two species endemic to Vietnam, described by Spencer Le Marchant Moore.

Phialacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Anisosepalum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Sphinctacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to Myanmar and Sumatra. Poorly attested, it seems to be found in tropical evergreen forests.

Borneacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Ritonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Ruttya is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes six species native to eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

Satanocrater (from σατανος‐, ‐κρατορας, meaning "devil's bowl") is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, disjunctly distributed in Guinea in west Africa, and Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan in east Africa. They are xerophytes, and either shrubs or perennial herbs.

Rhaphidospora is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. A classification of the Acanthaceae published in 2022 treats Rhaphidospora as a synonym of Justicia.

Trichanthera is a genus of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to central and southern tropical America. The genus was first described by Carl Sigismund Kunth in 1845.

Forcipella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, with all species native to Madagascar.

Leandriella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Spathacanthus is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It contains four species native to Mexico and Central America, ranging from central Mexico to Costa Rica.

Haplanthodes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes four species endemic to India.

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Thysanostigma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Clinacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Sapphoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to Cuba. Adapted to serpentine soils, they are nickel hyperaccumulators.

Anisostachya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 61 species native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros.

Xerothamnella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to Queensland, Australia. A molecular study shows that it is nested within Peristrophe.