Cyanotis
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
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|taxon = Cyanotis
|authority = D.Don
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- Amischophacelus R.S.Rao & Kammathy
- Belosynapsis {{small|Hassk.}}
- Cyanopogon Welw. ex C.B.Clarke
- Dalzellia Hassk. 1865 not Wight 1852
- Erythrotis Hook.f.
- Siphostigma Raf.
- Tonningia Neck.
- Zygomenes Salisb.
|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Cyanotis D.Don |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331179-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=21 March 2025}}
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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.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=235327 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=108768 Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 21 蓝耳草属 lan er cao shu Cyanotis D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 45. 1825. ]Dyer, R. Allen, “The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants”. {{ISBN|0-621-02854-1}}, 1975Faden, R. (2012). Commelinaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-244.Arnold T.H., de Wet B.C. (Eds), Plants of Southern Africa: Names & Distribution, MEMOIRS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA No. 62, Pub.National Botanical Institute, South Africa.1993 {{ISBN|1-874907-03-X}}
Species
- 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 {{small|Yugandhar, Sivaram., Savithr. & L.J.Singh}} – southern India (Andhra Pradesh)
- Cyanotis dybowskii Hua – Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic
- Cyanotis epiphytica {{small|Blatt.}} – 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 {{small|Hayata}} – southern Taiwan
- Cyanotis lanata Benth. – tropical + southern Africa, Yemen
- Cyanotis lanceolata {{small|Wight}} – 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
Gallery
Image:Cyanotis cristata (Nabhali) in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 0126.jpg|Cyanotis cristata in Hyderabad, India.
Image:Cyanotis fasciculata (Nilwanti) in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 9040.jpg|Cyanotis fasciculata in Hyderabad, India.
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External links
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