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Dyschoriste

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| image = Starr 071024-0372 Dyschoriste hygrophyloides.jpg

| image_caption = Dyschoriste hygrophyloides

| taxon = Dyschoriste

| authority = Nees (1832){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4063 |title=Genus: Dyschoriste Nees |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2009-01-23 |accessdate=2011-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011095711/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4063 |archive-date=2012-10-11 |url-status=dead }}

| subdivision = 98; see text

| synonyms =

  • Apassalus {{small|Kobuski (1928)}}
  • Calophanes {{small|D.Don (1833)}}
  • Chaetacanthus {{small|Nees (1836)}}
  • Homotropium {{small|Nees (1847)}}
  • Linostylis {{small|Fenzl ex Sond. (1850)}}
  • Phillipsia {{small|Rolfe (1895)}}
  • Sautiera {{small|Decne. (1834)}}

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327436-2 Dyschoriste Nees]. Plants of the World Online. Accessed 18 November 2023

}}

Dyschoriste is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 98 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, and southern Asia. Members of the genus are commonly known as snakeherb.{{ITIS |id=500252 |taxon=Dyschoriste |accessdate=2011-03-25}}

Etymology

The name comes from the Greek δυσ, poorly, and χωριστός, to split, in reference to the slightly lobed stigma.{{cite book|author1=Thomas Everett|author2=New York Botanical Garden|title=The New York Botanical Garden illustrated encyclopedia of horticulture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6xcnf5TksYC&pg=PA1154|year=1981|publisher=Courier|isbn=978-0-8240-7234-6|page=1154}}

Species

98 species are accepted.

References

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External links

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Category:Acanthaceae

Category:Acanthaceae genera

Category:Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

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