Biology:Sutera (plant)

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Sutera
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Sutera cordata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Tribe: Limoselleae
Genus: Sutera
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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.[clarification needed] 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]

Species

(As of July 2020), Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[2]

  • Sutera brunnea Hiern
  • Sutera burkeana (Benth.) Hiern
  • Sutera cooperi Hiern
  • Sutera foetida (Andrews) Roth
  • Sutera griquensis Hiern
Formerly placed in this genus

References

a sutera cordata plant on a balcony

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q286854 entry