Sutera (plant)

Sutera is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants and shrubs of the family Scrophulariaceae mainly confined to Africa.

Sutera
Sutera cordata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Tribe: Limoselleae
Genus: Sutera
Roth
Species

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Taxonomy

Sutera cordata was named Manulea cordata in 1800 by Thunberg. Bentham renamed it Chaenostoma in 1836, Kuntze changed it to Sutera in 1891 on the grounds of synonymy. In 1994 Hilliard considered the two names subgenera of Sutera, but in 2005 Kornhall and Bremer separated the two again, placing S. cordata in Chaenostoma.[1]

Species

As of July 2020, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[2]

  • Sutera brunnea Hiern
  • Sutera burkeana (Benth.) Hiern
  • Sutera cooperi Hiern
  • Sutera foetida (Andrews) Roth
  • Sutera griquensis Hiern
Formerly placed in this genus
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References
  1. Kornhall and Bremer: New circumscription of the tribe Limoselleae (Scrophulariaceae) that includes the taxa of the tribe Manuleeae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society Volume 146 Issue 4, Pages 453 - 467 2004
  2. "Sutera Roth", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-07-27
a sutera cordata plant on a balcony
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