Mimulopsis

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Mimulopsis violacea, a characteristic plant of the upper forest in Equatorial Africa.jpg

|image_caption = Mimulopsis violacea, watercolor

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Mimulopsis

|authority = Schweinf. (1868)

|type_species = Mimulopsis solmsii{{cite web

| url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Mimulopsis

| title = Mimulopsis G

| access-date = 2008-05-06

| date = 1996-02-09

| work = Index Nominum Genericorum

| publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy

}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 20; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:746-1 Mimulopsis Schweinf.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 February 2024.

|synonyms =

  • Epiclastopelma {{small|Lindau (1895)}}
  • Sooia {{small|Pócs (1973)}}

|synonyms_ref =

}}

Mimulopsis is a genus in the flowering plant family Acanthaceae with about 20 species native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.{{cite web

| url = http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1330

| title = 7937.000 Mimulopsis Schweinf.

| access-date = 2008-05-06

| author = Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten

| work = Flora of Zimbabwe

}}

Species

20 species are accepted:

References

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