''Stauranthera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with ...
, native to Bangladesh, the Nicobar Islands, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, south-central and southeast China (including Hainan), Southeast Asia, and Malesia to New Guinea.
It is very close morphologically and genetically to ''
Loxonia''.
Species
Currently accepted species include:
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Stauranthera argyrescens
''Stauranthera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old Wor ...
''
Hallier f.
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Stauranthera coerulea
''Stauranthera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Bangladesh, the Nicobar Islands, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, south-central and southeast China (including Hainan), Southeast Asia, and Malesia to New Guinea. ...
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(Blume) Merr.
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Stauranthera grandifolia''
Benth.
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Stauranthera ionantha''
Hallier f.
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Stauranthera novoguineensis''
B.L.Burtt
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Stauranthera parvifolia''
S.Moore
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Stauranthera umbrosa''
(Griff.) C.B.Clarke
References
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Gesneriaceae genera
Didymocarpoideae