Yeatesia

{{short description|Genus of Acanthaceae plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Yeatesia viridiflora (Acanthaceae).JPG

|image_caption = Yeatesia viridiflora

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Yeatesia

|authority = Small (1896)Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 410 (1896)

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms =

• Gatesia A.Gray (1878), nom. illeg.

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}}

Yeatesia is a putative genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, found in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States, from Texas to Florida. Each of its species grows in very different habitats; Yeatesia mabryi is found in hardwood forests in Mexico, Y. platystegia prefers semiarid scrublands in Mexico and Texas, and Y. viridiflora grows in wetter forest bluffs and along water courses in US Gulf Coast states. Molecular evidence shows that Yeatesia is not a monophyletic genus.{{cite journal |doi=10.1600/036364414X681446 |title=The Mirandea Clade (Acanthaceae, Justicieae, Tetramerium Lineage): Phylogenetic Signal from Molecular Data and Micromorphology Makes Sense of Taxonomic Confusion Caused by Remarkable Diversity of Floral Form |year=2014 |last1=Kiel |first1=Carrie A. |last2=McDade |first2=Lucinda A. |s2cid=86386856 |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=950–964 }}