Lindernia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| taxon = Lindernia

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• Bazina Raf.
• Bryodes Benth.
• Chamaegigas Dinter ex Heil
• Diceros Blume
• Geoffraya Bonati
• Ilysanthes Raf.
• Psammetes Hepper
• Pyxidaria Kuntze
• Virchowia Schenk

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The genus Lindernia is a group of plants in the family Linderniaceae. They are native to warm regions in both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.[http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States]

The genus name of Lindernia is in honour of Franz Balthasar von Lindern (1682–1755), French doctor and botanist in Strasbourg and also university botanical garden director.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

Lindernia consists of 30 species in its most recent circumscription.{{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Eberhard |last2=Schäferhoff |first2=Bastian |last3=Müller |first3=Kai |date=December 2013 |title=The phylogeny of Linderniaceae — The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia |journal=Willdenowia |publisher= Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=209–238 |doi=10.3372/wi.43.43201 }} Some species have become available commercially for use in home aquariums and aquascaping, such as L. rotundifolia.{{cite web |author=Farmer, George |title=Relax with this 100 gallon Jungle Aquascape |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruF2vOv_Tu4 |website=YouTube |access-date=15 November 2023 |date=19 March 2021 |quote=Zero minutes and 53 seconds}}