Symonanthus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Symonanthus_aromaticus_(8696022506).jpg

|image_caption =Symonanthus aromaticus

|taxon = Symonanthus

|image_alt = Cluster of small white blossoms

|authority = Haegi

|synonyms = Isandra {{Au|F.Muell.}} in S. Sci. Rec. 3: 2 (1883), nom. illeg.

Isandraea {{Au|Rauschert}} Taxon 31: 562 (1982)

}}

Symonanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Laurence Arnold Robert Haegi in Telopea vol.2 on page 175 in 1981.{{cite web |title=Symonanthus Haegi {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893521-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 March 2021 |language=en}}

The genus name of Symonanthus is in honour of David Eric Symon (1920–2011), who was an Australian botanist and taxonomist, from the University of Adelaide and Waite Agricultural Research Institute. He help develop the Waite Arboretum as well.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}