Hybanthus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in Eudicot family Violaceae}}

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|image = Hybanthus enneaspermus in Talakona forest, AP W IMG 8537.jpg

|image_caption = Hybanthus enneaspermus at Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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|taxon = Hybanthus

|authority = Jacq.

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|subdivision = See text

|synonyms =

• Acentra Phil.
• Calceolaria Loefl.
• Clelandia J.M.Black
• Cubelium Raf. ex Britton & A.Br.
• Ionidium Vent.

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Hybanthus (green-violet){{PLANTS|id=HYBAN|taxon=Hybanthus|accessdate=15 May 2015}} is a genus of flowering plants in the family Violaceae. This genus name is Greek for "humpback flower", referring to the drooping pedicels of plants that are part of this genus. The genus is grossly polyphyletic and may contain up to nine different genera, of which Pombalia Vand., Cubelium Raf. and Pigea DC. have been previously recognised.G. A. Wahlert, T. Marcussen, J. Paula-Souza, Min Feng, and H. E. Ballard, Jr. A Phylogeny of the Violaceae (Malpighiales) Inferred from Plastid DNA Sequences: Implications for Generic Diversity and Intrafamilial Classification. Systematic Botany 39. 1. 239-252. 2014