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 (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 – southern India (Andhra Pradesh) Cyanotis dybowskii Hua – Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic Cyanotis epiphytica – 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 – 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 (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