List of Commelinaceae genera

This is a list of Commelinaceae genera as of 2025. This list includes all genera recognised as current by the Kew's Plants of the World Online.

Genera list

GenusAuthority Year Classification Type species # of species Distribution Cartonema 1810 Cartonema spicatum 7 Australia Triceratella 1961 Triceratella drummondii 1 Zimbabwe & Mozambique Palisota 1836 Palisota ambigua 31 Africa Streptolirion 1845 Streptolirion volubile 2 Himalayas to Japan Spatholirion 1896 Spatholirion ornatum 7 China to Malaysia Aetheolirion 1962 Aetheolirion stenolobium 1 Thailand Cyanotis 1825 Cyanotis barbata 51 Paleotropics Coleotrype 1881 Coleotrype natalensis 10 Africa, Madagascar Amischotolype 1863 Amischotolype glabrataThe correct name for this species is Amischotolype mollissima (Blume) Hassk. 28 Central Africa,India to New Guinea Siderasis 1837("1836") Siderasis acaulisThis name is illegitimate; the correct name is Siderasis fuscata (Lodd.) H.E.Moore. 6 Eastern Brazil Dichorisandra 1820 Dichorisandra thyrsiflora 57 Neotropics Cochliostema 1859 Cochliostema odoratissimum 2 Nicaragua to Ecuador GeogenanthusThis name was proposed as a replacement for Ule's own Chamaeanthus (Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 50:71, 1909, "1908"), which was predated by Chamaeanthus J.J.Sm. (Orch. Jav.:552, 1905), but the replacement Uleopsis had been published by Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde in the meantime (Just's Bot. Jahresber. 37(2):77, 1911, "1909" ). The correct name is Uleopsis, but is not in current use. 1913 Geogenanthus wittianusThe currently used name for this species is Geogenanthus poeppigii (Miq.) Faden; the correct, but yet unpublished combination would be Uleopsis poeppigii. 3 Western South America Plowmanianthus 2004 Plowmanianthus perforans 5 Panama toAmazonian Bassin Tinantia 1839 Tinantia fugaxA synonym of Tinantia erecta (Jacq.) Fenzl. 13 Texas to Neotropics Thyrsanthemum 1946 Thyrsanthemum floribundum 4 Mexico Weldenia 1829 Weldenia candida 2 Mexico and Guatemala Matudanthus 1978 Matudanthus nanus 1 Mexico Sauvallia 1870 Sauvallea blainii 1 Cuba Elasis 1978 Elasis hirsuta 2 Ecuador Gibasis 1839 Gibasis pulchella 14 Neotropics Tradescantia 1753 Tradescantia virginiana 86 New World Callisia 1758 Callisia repens 19 Tropical and subtropical Americas Tripogandra 1837 Tripogandra multiflora 22 Neotropics Stanfieldiella 1960 Stanfieldiella imperforata 4 Africa Floscopa 1790 Floscopa scandens 21 Pantropical Buforrestia 1881 Buforrestia mannii 3 West and Central Africa and northern South America Murdannia 1840 ("1839") Murdannia scapifloraThis species is currently treated as a synonym of Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden. 61 Pantropcal Tricarpelema 1966 Tricarpelema thomsoniiNow a synonym of Tricarpelema giganteum (Hassk.) H.Hara. 8 India to Southeast Asia Pseudoparis 1936 Pseudoparis cauliflora 2 or 3 Madagascar Polyspatha 1849 Polyspatha paniculata 3 Tropical Africa Dictyospermum 1853 Dictyospermum montanum 5 India and Sri Lankato New Guinea Pollia 1781 Pollia japonica 19 Pantropical Aneilema 1810 Aneilema biflorum 66 Pantropical Rhopalephora 1864 Rhopalephora blumeiThis species' correct name is Rhopalephora micrantha (Vahl) Faden. 4 Madagascar, India to Fiji Commelina 1753 Commelina communis 208 Cosmopolitan Tapheocarpa 1994 Tapheocarpa calandrinioides 1 Australia

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