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List of Commelinaceae genera

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This is a list of Commelinaceae genera as of 2025. This list includes all genera recognised as current by the Kew's Plants of the World Online.{{cite web |title=Commelinaceae Mirb. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000225-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=21 March 2025}}

Genera list

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Genus
Authority

! Year

! Classification

! class="unsortable" | Type species

! # of species

! class="unsortable" | Distribution

style="text-align:left;"| Cartonema
{{small|R.Br.}}		1810{{ubl|Cartonematoideae|Cartonemateae}}Cartonema spicatum
{{small|R.Br.}}		7Australia
style="text-align:left;"| Triceratella
{{small|Brenan}}		1961{{ubl|Cartonematoideae|Triceratelleae}}Triceratella drummondii
{{small|Brenan}}		1Zimbabwe & Mozambique
style="text-align:left;"| Palisota
{{small|Rchb. ex Endlicher}}		1836{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Palisotineae}}Palisota ambigua
{{small|(P.Beauv.) C.B.Clarke}}		31Africa
style="text-align:left;"| Streptolirion
{{small|Edgew.}}{{refn|{{cite journal |year=1845 |title=June 3 |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London|volume=1 |issue=26 |pages=252–254 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8550176 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.1845.tb01000-26.x}} (Paper summary)The paper itself was published as {{cite journal |last=Edgeworth |first=M. Pakenham |author-link=Michael Pakenham Edgeworth |year=1846 |title=Descriptions of some unpublished Species of Plants from North-Western India |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=23–91 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1846.tb00410.x |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/899204}}}}		1845{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Streptoliriineae}}Streptolirion volubile
{{small|Edgew.}}		2Himalayas to Japan
style="text-align:left;"| Spatholirion
{{small|Ridl.}}		1896{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Streptoliriineae}}Spatholirion ornatum
{{small|Ridl.}}		7China to Malaysia
style="text-align:left;"| Aetheolirion
{{small|Forman}}		1962{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Streptoliriineae}}Aetheolirion stenolobium
{{small|Forman}}		1Thailand
style="text-align:left;"| Cyanotis
{{small|D.Don}}		1825{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Cyanotinae}}Cyanotis barbata
{{small|D.Don}}		51Paleotropics
style="text-align:left;"| Coleotrype
{{small|C.B.Clarke}}		1881{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Coleotrypineae}}Coleotrype natalensis
{{small|C.B.Clarke}}		10Africa, Madagascar
style="text-align:left;"| Amischotolype
{{small|Hassk.}}		1863{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Coleotrypineae}}Amischotolype glabrataThe correct name for this species is Amischotolype mollissima (Blume) Hassk.
{{small|Hassk.}}		28Central Africa,
India to New Guinea
style="text-align:left;"| Siderasis
{{small|Raf.}}		1837
("1836")		{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Dichorisandrinae}}Siderasis acaulisThis name is illegitimate; the correct name is Siderasis fuscata (Lodd.) H.E.Moore.
{{small|Raf.}}		6Eastern Brazil
style="text-align:left;"| Dichorisandra
{{small|J.C.Mikan}}		1820{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Dichorisandrinae}}Dichorisandra thyrsiflora
{{small|J.C.Mikan}}		57Neotropics
style="text-align:left;"| Cochliostema
{{small|Lem.}}		1859{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Dichorisandrinae}}Cochliostema odoratissimum
{{small|Lem.}}		2Nicaragua to Ecuador
style="text-align:left;"| GeogenanthusThis name was proposed as a replacement for Ule's own Chamaeanthus (Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 50:71, 1909, "1908"), which was predated by Chamaeanthus J.J.Sm. (Orch. Jav.:552, 1905), but the replacement Uleopsis had been published by Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde in the meantime (Just's Bot. Jahresber. 37(2):77, 1911, "1909" ). The correct name is Uleopsis, but is not in current use.
{{small|Ule}}		1913{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Dichorisandrinae}}Geogenanthus wittianusThe currently used name for this species is Geogenanthus poeppigii (Miq.) Faden; the correct, but yet unpublished combination would be Uleopsis poeppigii.
{{small|(Ule) Ule}}		3Western South America
style="text-align:left;"| Plowmanianthus
{{small|Faden & C.R.Hardy}}		2004{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Dichorisandrinae}}Plowmanianthus perforans
{{small|Faden & C.R.Hardy}}		5Panama to
Amazonian Bassin
style="text-align:left;"| Tinantia
{{small|Scheidw.}}		1839{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Thyrsanthemineae}}Tinantia fugaxA synonym of Tinantia erecta (Jacq.) Fenzl.
{{small|Scheidw.}}		13Texas to Neotropics
style="text-align:left;"| Thyrsanthemum
{{small|Pichon}}		1946{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Thyrsanthemineae}}Thyrsanthemum floribundum
{{small|(M.Martens & Galeotti) Pichon}}		4Mexico
style="text-align:left;"| Weldenia
{{small|Schult.f.}}		1829{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Thyrsanthemineae}}Weldenia candida
{{small|Schult.f.}}		2Mexico and Guatemala
style="text-align:left;"| Matudanthus
{{small|D.R.Hunt}}		1978{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Thyrsanthemineae}}Matudanthus nanus
{{small|(M.Martens & Galeotti) D.R.Hunt}}		1Mexico
style="text-align:left;"| Sauvallia
{{small|C.Wright ex Hassk.}}		1870{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Thyrsanthemineae}}Sauvallea blainii
{{small|C.Wright}}		1Cuba
style="text-align:left;"| Elasis
{{small|D.R.Hunt}}		1978{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Tradescantiinae}}Elasis hirsuta
{{small|(Kunth) D.R.Hunt}}		2Ecuador
style="text-align:left;"| Gibasis
{{small|Raf.}}		1839{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Tradescantiinae}}Gibasis pulchella
{{small|(Kunth)Raf.}}		14Neotropics
style="text-align:left;"| Tradescantia
{{small|L.}}		1753{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Tradescantiinae}}Tradescantia virginiana
{{small|L.}}		86New World
style="text-align:left;"| Callisia
{{small|Loefl.}}		1758{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Tradescantiinae}}Callisia repens
{{small|(Jacq.) L.}}		19Tropical and subtropical Americas
style="text-align:left;"| Tripogandra
{{small|Raf.}}		1837{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Tradescantieae|Tradescantiinae}}Tripogandra multiflora
{{small|(Sw.) Raf.}}		22Neotropics
style="text-align:left;"| Stanfieldiella
{{small|Brenan}}		1960{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Stanfieldiella imperforata
{{small|(C.B.Clarke) Brenan}}		4Africa
style="text-align:left;"| Floscopa
{{small|Lour.}}		1790{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Floscopa scandens
{{small|Lour.}}		21Pantropical
style="text-align:left;"| Buforrestia
{{small|C.B.Clarke}}		1881{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Buforrestia mannii
{{small|C.B.Clarke}}		3West and Central Africa and northern South America
style="text-align:left;"| Murdannia
{{small|Royle}}		1840 ("1839"){{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Murdannia scapifloraThis species is currently treated as a synonym of Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden.
{{small|(Roxb.) Royle}}		61Pantropcal
style="text-align:left;"| Tricarpelema
{{small|J.K.Morton}}		1966{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Tricarpelema thomsoniiNow a synonym of Tricarpelema giganteum (Hassk.) H.Hara.
{{small|(C.B.Clarke) J.K.Morton}}		8India to Southeast Asia
style="text-align:left;"| Pseudoparis
{{small|H.Perrier}}		1936{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Pseudoparis cauliflora
{{small|H.Perrier}}		2 or 3Madagascar
style="text-align:left;"| Polyspatha
{{small|Benth.}}		1849{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Polyspatha paniculata
{{small|Benth.}}		3Tropical Africa
style="text-align:left;"| Dictyospermum
{{small|Wight}}		1853{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Dictyospermum montanum
{{small|Wight}}		5India and Sri Lanka
to New Guinea
style="text-align:left;"| Pollia
{{small|Thunb.}}		1781{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Pollia japonica
{{small|Thunb.}}		19Pantropical
style="text-align:left;"| Aneilema
{{small|R.Br.}}		1810{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Aneilema biflorum
{{small|R.Br.}}		66Pantropical
style="text-align:left;"| Rhopalephora
{{small|Hassk.}}		1864{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Rhopalephora blumeiThis species' correct name is Rhopalephora micrantha (Vahl) Faden.
{{small|Hassk.}}		4Madagascar, India to Fiji
style="text-align:left;"| Commelina
{{small|L.}}		1753{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Commelina communis
{{small|L.}}		208Cosmopolitan
style="text-align:left;"| Tapheocarpa
{{small|Conran}}		1994{{ubl|Commelinoideae|Commelineae}}Tapheocarpa calandrinioides
{{small|(F.Muell.) Conran}}		1Australia

Notes

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References

  • {{Citation

| last1 =Govaerts

| first1 =R.

| last2 =Faden

| first2 =Robert B.

| title = World Checklist of Commelinaceae.

| year =2004

| url = http://www.kew.org/wcsp/

| publisher = The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens

| location = Kew

| access-date = 21 July 2010}}

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{{cite journal |last=Brenan |first=J.P.M. |author-link=John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan |year=1960 |title=Notes on African Commelinaceae: II. The Genus Buforrestia C. B. Cl. and a New related Genus, Stanfordiella |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=280–286 |doi=10.2307/4114811 |jstor=4114811}}

{{cite journal |last=Brenan |first=J.P.M. |author-link=John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan |year=1961 |title=Triceratella: a new genus of Commelinaceae from Southern Rhodesia |journal=Kirkia |volume=1 |pages=14–19 }}

{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) |year=1810 |title=Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen |language=la |location=London |publisher=R. Taylor & Co. |pages=270–271 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/827875}}

{{cite book |last=Clarke |first=C.B. |author-link=Charles Baron Clarke |editor1-last=de Candolle |editor1-first=Alphonse |editor1-link=Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle |editor2-last=de Candolle |editor2-first=Casimir |editor2-link=Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle |year=1881 |chapter=Commelinaceae |language=la |title=Monographiaea Phanerogamarum |volume=3 |location=Paris |publisher=G.Masson |pages=113–324}}

  • Buforrestia, [http://www.botanicus.org/page/1696564 p. 233]
  • Coleotrype, [http://www.botanicus.org/page/1696444 p. 238]

{{cite journal |last=Conran |first=J.G. |year= 1994|title=Tapheocarpa (Commelinaceae) a new Australian genus with hypogeous fruits |journal=Australian Systematic Botany |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages= 585–589 |doi=10.1071/SB9940585}}

{{cite book |last=Don |first=David |author-link=David Don |year=1825 |title=Prodromus Florae Nepalensis |location=London |publisher=J.Gale |page=45 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/392942}}

{{cite book |editor1-last=Endlicher |editor1-first=Stephan |editor1-link=Stephan Endlicher |year=1837 |title=Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorumet in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel |language=la |location=Vienna |publisher=Fr. Beck University |page=125}}

{{cite journal |last=Forman |first=L.L. |year=1962 |title=Aëtheolirion, a New Genus of Commelinaceae from Thailand, with Notes on Allied Genera |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=209–221 |doi=10.2307/4118819 |jstor=4118819}}

{{cite journal |last=Hardy |first=Christopher R |author2=Robert B. Faden |year=2004 |title=Plowmanianthus, a New Genus of Commelinaceae with Five New Species from Tropical America |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=316–333 |doi=10.1600/036364404774195511 |jstor=25063964|s2cid=85805821 }}

{{cite journal |last=Hasskarl |first=J.K. |author-link=Justus Carl Hasskarl |year=1863 |title=Adumbrationes Commelinacearum quarundam, quas in Africae orientalis littore, Mozambique reperit Prof. Peters et amplius in hujus opere "Reise etc." descripsit |language=la |journal=Flora |volume=46 |issue=25 |pages=385–393 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/55239}}

{{cite journal |last=Hasskarl |first=J.C. |author-link=Justus Carl Hasskarl |year=1864 |title=Rhopalephora, eine neue Commelinaceen-Gattung |journal=Botanische Zeitung |volume=22 |issue=8 |pages=58–61 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33562591}}

{{cite book |last1=Hooker |first1=J.D. |last2=Bentham |first2=George |year=1849 |title=Flora Nigritiana |location=London |publisher= H. Bailliere |page=543 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/552337}}

{{cite journal |last=Hunt |first=D.R. |author-link=David Hunt (botanist) |year=1978 |title=Three New Genera in Commelinaceae: American Commelinaceae: VI |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=331–334 |jstor=4109587 |doi=10.2307/4109587}}

{{cite journal |last=Lemaire |first=Ch. |author-link=Charles Antoine Lemaire |year=1859 |title=Cochliostema |journal=L'Illustration Horticole |language=fr |volume=6 |issue=Misc |pages=70}}

{{cite book |author=Linnaeus |year=1753 |title=Species Plantarum |language=la}}

  • Commelina, [http://www.botanicus.org/page/358061 p. 40]
  • Tradescantia, [http://www.botanicus.org/page/358307 p. 299]

{{cite book |last=Löfling |first=Pehr |author-link=Pehr Löfling |year=1758 |title=Iter Hispanicum |location=Stockholm |publisher=Ttryckt på Direct. Lars Salvii Kostnad |page=305 |url=http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=66&Pagina=327}}

{{cite book |last= de Loureiro |first= João |author-link=João de Loureiro |year=1790 |title=Flora Cochinchinensis |language=la |location=Lisbon |publisher=Typis, et expensis academicis |page=192 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/653391}}

{{cite book |last=Mikan |first=J. C. |author-link=Johann Christian Mikan |year=1820 |title=Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis |location=Vienna |publisher=Antonii Strauss |at=plate 3}}

{{cite journal |last=Morton |first=J.K. |year=1966 |title=A revision of the genus Aneilema R. Brown (Commelinaceae) with a cytotaxonomic account of the West African species |journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany |volume=59 |issue=380 |pages=431–478 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1966.tb00073.x}}

{{cite journal |last=Perrier de la Bâthie |first=H. |author-link=Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie |year=1936 |title=Commelinacées de Madagascar |language=fr |journal=Notulae Systematica |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=173–216;176 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/902583}}

{{cite journal |last=Pichon |first=M. |year=1946 |title=Sur les Commélinacées |language=fr |journal=Notulae Systematica |volume=12 |issue=3–4 |pages=217–243;224 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/967856}}

{{cite book |last=Rafinesque |author-link=Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |year=1836 |title=Flora Telluriana |language=la |volume=3 |publisher=H. Probasco |location=Philadelphia |page=67 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32191}}

  • Gibasis, p. 2:16
  • Siderasis, p. 3:67
  • Tripogandra, p. 2:16

{{cite journal |last=Ridley |first=H.N. |author-link=Henry Nicholas Ridley |year=1896 |title=A New Genus of Commelinaceae |journal=Journal of Botany, British and Foreign |volume=34 |pages=328–329 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8967711}}

{{cite book |last=Royle |first=J.Forbes |author-link=John Forbes Royle |year=1839 |title=Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains |publisher=Wm. H. Allen |location=London |volume=1 |page=403 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/814298}}

{{cite journal |last=Sauvalle |first=Francisco A. |date=October 1871 |title=Flora Cubana |language=la |journal=Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana |volume=7 |pages=607–611 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C78YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607}} (The Flora was published in numerous unnumbered parts over vols. 5-8)

{{cite journal |last=Scheidweiler |first=M. |author-link=Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler |year=1839 |title=Eines Neuen Genus aus der Familie der Commelinaceen |language=de |journal=Allgemeine Gartenzeitung |volume=7 |issue=46 |pages=365–366 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/1256320}}

{{cite journal |last=Schultes |first=J.H. |author-link=Julius Hermann Schultes |year=1829 |title=Weldenia, eine neue Pflanzengattung |journal=Flora |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/page/25327}}

{{cite book |last=Thunberg |first=C.P. |author-link=Carl Peter Thunberg |year=1781 |title=Nova Genera Plantarum |volume=1 |page=11 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/738953}}

{{cite journal |last=Ule |first=E. |year=1913 |title=Berichtigung |language=de |journal=Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis |volume=11 |issue=31–33 |pages=524 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753002735832 |doi=10.1002/fedr.19130113107}}

{{cite book |last=Wight |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Wight |year=1853 |title=Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis |volume=6 |publisher=J.B. Pharoah |location=Madras |page=29 |url=http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753002701925}}}}

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