Commelinaceae

Aneilema R.Br.

First published in Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 270 (1810)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropics & Subtropics.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Panamá, Peru, Queensland, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Cambodia, Hawaii, Vietnam

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Brückner in E. & P., Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 15A: 174 (1930)
  • F.T.A. 8: 33, excluding Tricarpellria
  • J.K. Morton in J. Linn. Soc. 60: 168 (1967).
  • Prod. 290 (1810)

Flora of Somalia

  • Faden in Smithsonian Contrib. Bot. 76 (1991).
  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by R. B. Faden [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0