Cyanotis (syn. ''Tonningia'') is a genus of mainly

perennial plant A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

s in the family Commelinaceae, first described in 1825. It is native to

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, southern

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, and northern

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Dyer, R. Allen, “The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants”. , 1975Faden, R. (2012). Commelinaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-244.Arnold T.H., de Wet B.C. (Eds), Plants of Southern Africa: Names & Distribution, MEMOIRS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA No. 62, Pub.National Botanical Institute, South Africa.1993 ; Species * '' Cyanotis adscendens'' Dalzell - India, Sri Lanka * '' Cyanotis ake-assii'' Brenan - Mali, Ivory Coast * '' Cyanotis angusta'' C.B.Clarke - West Africa * '' Cyanotis arachnoidea'' C.B.Clarke - tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Indochina * '' Cyanotis arcotensis'' R.S.Rao - southern India * ''

Cyanotis axillaris ''Cyanotis axillaris'' is a species of perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of fiv ...

'' (L.) D.Don ex Sweet - Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Northern Australia * '' Cyanotis beddomei'' (Hook.f.) Erhardt, Götz & Seybold - southern India * '' Cyanotis burmanniana'' Wight - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar * '' Cyanotis caespitosa'' Kotschy & Peyr. - tropical Africa * '' Cyanotis cerifolia'' R.S.Rao & Kammathy - southern India * '' Cyanotis ceylanica'' Hassk. - Sri Lanka * '' Cyanotis cristata''(L.) D.Don - Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia, Socotra, Mauritius, Java, Philippines * ''

Cyanotis cucullata Cyanotis (syn. ''Tonningia'') is a genus of mainly perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described in 1825. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia.Dyer, R. Allen, “The Genera of Southern African Flowering P ...

'' (Roth) Kunth - southern India, Myanmar, Thailand * '' Cyanotis cupricola'' J.Duvign. - Zaïre * '' Cyanotis dybowskii'' Hua - Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic * '' Cyanotis fasciculata'' (B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult. & Schult.f. - Indian Subcontinent * '' Cyanotis flexuosa'' C.B.Clarke - Huíla region of Angola * '' Cyanotis foecunda'' DC. ex Hassk - central + eastern Africa, Yemen * '' Cyanotis ganganensis'' Schnell - Guinea * '' Cyanotis grandidieri'' H.Perrier - Madagascar * '' Cyanotis hepperi'' Brenan - Nigeria * '' Cyanotis homblei'' De Wild. - Zaïre * '' Cyanotis karliana'' Hassk. - southern India * '' Cyanotis lanata'' Benth. - tropical + southern Africa, Yemen * '' Cyanotis lapidosa'' Phil. - South Africa, Eswatini * '' Cyanotis longifolia'' Benth. - tropical Africa * '' Cyanotis loureiroana'' (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr - Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam * '' Cyanotis lourensis'' Schnell - Guinea * '' Cyanotis nilagirica'' Hassk. - southern India * '' Cyanotis nyctitropa'' Deflers - Yemen, Saudi Arabia * '' Cyanotis obtusa'' (Trimen) Trimen - southern India, Sri Lanka * '' Cyanotis pachyrrhiza'' Oberm. - Transvaal * '' Cyanotis paludosa'' Brenan - Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania * '' Cyanotis papilionacea'' (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India * '' Cyanotis pedunculata'' Merr. - Leyte Island in Philippines * '' Cyanotis pilosa'' Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India, Sri Lanka * '' Cyanotis polyrrhiza'' Hochst. ex Hassk. - Ethiopia * '' Cyanotis racemosa'' B.Heyne ex Hassk. - southern India, Sri Lanka * '' Cyanotis repens'' Faden & D.M.Cameron - Zaïre, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Gabon * '' Cyanotis reutiana'' Beauverd - southern India * '' Cyanotis robusta'' Oberm. - Transvaal, Namibia * '' Cyanotis scaberula'' Hutch. - Guinea * '' Cyanotis somaliensis'' C.B.Clarke - Somalia * '' Cyanotis speciosa'' (L. f.) Hassk. - central + southern Africa, Madagascar * '' Cyanotis thwaitesii'' Hassk. - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar * '' Cyanotis tuberosa'' (Roxb.) Schult. & Schult.f. - western India * '' Cyanotis vaga'' (Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f. - tropical Africa, Yemen, Himalayas, southern China, Indochina, Java * '' Cyanotis vaginata'' Wight - southern India * '' Cyanotis villosa'' (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f. - southern India, Sri Lanka

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Image:Cyanotis cristata (Nabhali) in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 0126.jpg, '' Cyanotis cristata'' in

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. Image:Cyanotis fasciculata (Nilwanti) in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 9040.jpg, '' Cyanotis fasciculata'' in

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q2697656 Commelinales genera Taxa named by David Don