Tetranema

{{short description|Genus of Plantaginaceae plants}}

{{For|the genus described by Sweet|Ototropis}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image=Tetranema roseum - JBM.jpg

|image_caption=Tetranema roseum in bloom

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|taxon=Tetranema

|authority=Benth.Edwards's Bot. Reg. 29: t. 52 (1843)

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=See text

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|synonyms=Allophyton Brandegee

}}

Tetranema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Mexico and Central America. There has been some taxonomic debate over its family placement, with Gesneriaceae and Scrophulariaceae having been proposed.{{cite journal |title=Nomenclatural corrections in Mesoamerican Plantaginaceae and a new species of Tetranema from Honduras |year=2010 |last1=Christenhusz |first1=M. J. M. |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=14 |pages=56–60 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.14.1.5 |hdl=10138/28043 |quote=Key to the species of Tetranema |hdl-access=free }}