Sanango

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author= Svensson, M.S. |date=2024 |title= Sanango racemosum |volume=2024 |page= e.T239407552A239409601 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T239407552A239409601.en |access-date=January 18, 2025}}

|taxon = Sanango racemosum

|grandparent_authority = A.Weber, J.L.Clark & Mich.Möller

|parent_authority = G.S.Bunting & J.A.Duke (1961)

|authority = (Ruiz & Pav.) Barringer

|display_parents = 3

|synonyms = {{species list |Gomara racemosa|Ruiz & Pav.

|Gomaranthus racemosus|(Ruíz & Pav.) Rauschert

|Russelia racemosa|(Ruiz & Pav.) Wettst.

|Sanango durum|Bunting & Duke}}

|synonyms_ref =[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:284599-2 Sanango racemosum (Ruiz & Pav.) Barringer]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

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Sanango is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species, Sanango racemosum. It is a shrub or tree native to Ecuador and Peru.

The genus was originally placed in family Loganiaceae{{citation |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54726#page/284/mode/1up |title=Sanango: New Amazonian Genus of Loganiaceae |author1=George S. Bunting |author2=James A. Duke |name-list-style=amp |year=1961 |volume=48 |issue=3 |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |pages=269–274|doi=10.2307/2394954|jstor=2394954 }} but has since been variously placed in Scrophulariaceae,{{citation |author1=Smith, J.F. |author2=Brown, K.D. |author3=Carroll, C.L. |author4=Denton, D.S. |year=1997 |title=Familial Placement of Cyrtandromoea, Titanotrichum and Sanango, Three Problematic Genera of the Lamiales |journal=Taxon |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=65–74 |jstor=1224292 |doi=10.2307/1224292}} Gesneriaceae{{citation |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2486235 |title=The Plant List |access-date=17 May 2016}} and Buddlejaceae.{{citation |url=http://www.ipni.org |title=The International Plant Names Index |access-date=17 May 2016}} As of 2016 it is considered to be the sister genus to the family Gesneriaceae as previously defined, and the family was tentatively enlarged to include the genus, pending a revision of the families included in Lamiales.{{citation |author=The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2016 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=181 |issue=1 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1111/boj.12385|doi-access=free }} It has been placed as the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Sanangoideae.{{Citation |last1=Weber |first1=A. |last2=Middleton |first2=D.J. |last3=Clark |first3=J.L. |last4=Möller |first4=M. |date=2020 |title=Keys to the infrafamilial taxa and genera of Gesneriaceae |journal=Rheedea |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=5–47 |doi=10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.02 |name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}