Lindernia

The genus Lindernia is a group of plants in the family Linderniaceae. They are native to warm regions in both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.[1]

Lindernia
Lindernia monticola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Linderniaceae
Genus: Lindernia
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The genus name of Lindernia is in honour of Franz Balthasar von Lindern (1682–1755), French doctor and botanist in Strasbourg and also university botanical garden director.[2]

Lindernia consists of 30 species in its most recent circumscription.[3]

Species list
  • Lindernia alsinoides
  • Lindernia alterniflora
  • Lindernia benthamii
  • Lindernia brachyphylla
  • Lindernia bryoides
  • Lindernia capensis
  • Lindernia crustacea
  • Lindernia conferta
  • Lindernia congesta
  • Lindernia dubia
  • Lindernia grandiflora
  • Lindernia hyssopioides
  • Lindernia jiuhuanica
  • Lindernia lemuriana
  • Lindernia linearifolia
  • Lindernia madagascariensis
  • Lindernia madayiparensis
  • Lindernia manilaliana
  • Lindernia microcalyx
  • Lindernia minima
  • Lindernia monroi
  • Lindernia monticola
  • Lindernia natans
  • Lindernia paludosa
  • Lindernia parviflora
  • Lindernia procumbens
  • Lindernia rotundata
  • Lindernia rotundifolia
  • Lindernia srilankana
  • Lindernia tridentata
  • Lindernia viguieri

References
  1. Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. Fischer, Eberhard; Schäferhoff, Bastian; Müller, Kai (December 2013). "The phylogeny of Linderniaceae — The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia". Willdenowia. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin. 43 (2): 209–238.
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