''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yellow

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s. They are found mainly in rain forests, semi-deciduous mountain forests, and

restinga Restingas () are a distinct type of coastal tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest in eastern Brazil. They form on sandy, acidic, and nutrient-poor soils, and are characterized by medium-sized trees and shrubs adapted to the drier and nut ...

s. They are pollinated by

bee Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyly, monophyletic lineage within the ...

s and

hummingbird Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics aro ...

s. The genus was established by the German naturalist

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He de ...

in 1838. It is considered

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...

and includes fourteen species: *''

Schaueria calycotricha ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like gre ...

'' (Link & Otto) Nees ::(

syn. The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnae ...

''Schaueria flavicoma'') *'' Schaueria capitata'' Nees *'' Schaueria gonystachya'' (Nees & Mart.) Nees *''

Schaueria hirsuta ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' Nees *'' Schaueria hirta'' A.L.A.Côrtes, T.F.Daniel, A.Rapin *'' Schaueria humuliflora'' Nees *'' Schaueria litoralis'' (Vell.) A.L.A.Côrtes ::(

''Schaueria lophura'') *'' Schaueria lachynostachya'' A.L.A.Cortes & A.C.Mota *''

Schaueria marginata ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' Nees *''

Schaueria malifolia ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' Nees *''

Schaueria paranaensis ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' (Rizz.) A.L.A.Côrtes, T.F.Daniel, A.Rapini ::(

''Justicia paranaensis'') *''

Schaueria parviflora ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' (Leonard) T.F.Daniel *''

Schaueria pyramidalis ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' A.L.A.Côrtes, T.F.Daniel, A.Rapini *''

Schaueria thyrsiflora ''Schaueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are endemic to Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul. They are characterized by small elongated white or yellow flowers and narrow to thread-like green or yello ...

'' A.L.A.Côrtes, T.F.Daniel, A.Rapini

References

Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Endemic flora of Brazil Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck {{Acanthaceae-stub

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