Acanthaceae

Mirandea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Streblacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Pseudodicliptera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes four species endemic to Madagascar.

Neriacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It contains five species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Jamaica and Panama to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Brillantaisia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. They are native to the African tropics and subtropics, including Madagascar. They may grow from 20 cm to 2 m in height. Their hirsute stems are square in cross-section and their heart-shaped leaves have an opposite arrangement. Their purple or white pea-like flowers produce long, cigar-shaped seed pods. They reproduce easily from seeds or vegetatively. One species, B. lamium, is invasive in Queensland.

Cosmianthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Louteridium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Crossandrella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Heteradelphia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes two species native to Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and Nigeria in western tropical Africa and to São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea Islands.

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Ptyssiglottis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes 38 species native to tropical Asia and Papuasia, ranging from Sri Lanka to Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago.

Yeatesia is a putative genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, found in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States, from Texas to Florida. Each of its species grows in very different habitats; Yeatesia mabryi is found in hardwood forests in Mexico, Y. platystegia prefers semiarid scrublands in Mexico and Texas, and Y. viridiflora grows in wetter forest bluffs and along water courses in US Gulf Coast states. Molecular evidence shows that Yeatesia is not a monophyletic genus.

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Pseudocalyx is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Leptosiphonium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes ten species native to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Chlamydacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Monothecium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Camarotea souiensis is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It is a shrub endemic to southern Madagascar. It is the sole species in genus Camarotea.

Dicladanthera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Chamaeranthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes four species native to the tropical Americas, including Costa Rica, Peru, and southern and southeastern Brazil.

Podorungia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

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Forcipella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, with all species native to Madagascar.

Leandriella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Phialacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Bravaisia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes three species of shrubs or trees native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, and Trinidad. Bravaisia berlandieriana (Nees) T.F.Daniel Bravaisia grandiflora Donn.Sm. Bravaisia integerrima (Spreng.) Standl.

Sphinctacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to Myanmar and Sumatra. Poorly attested, it seems to be found in tropical evergreen forests.

Rhaphidospora is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. A classification of the Acanthaceae published in 2022 treats Rhaphidospora as a synonym of Justicia.

Suessenguthia is a genus of the Acanthaceae plant family comprising eight species of shrubs with showy, tubular flowers arranged in few-flowered heads. It occurs in the lowlands and Andean foothills of southern Peru, Bolivia, and the Brazilian state of Acre, often growing in small groups along rivers.

Satanocrater (from σατανος‐, ‐κρατορας, meaning "devil's bowl") is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, disjunctly distributed in Guinea in west Africa, and Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan in east Africa. They are xerophytes, and either shrubs or perennial herbs.

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Haplanthodes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes four species endemic to India.

Cyclacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae and tribe Justicieae. The genus consists of two species endemic to Vietnam, described by Spencer Le Marchant Moore.

Lasiocladus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Filetia is a genus of flowering plants in the acanthus family (Acanthaceae), found in west Malesia (Sundaland). It is named for Dutch Army physician G.J. Filet, 1825–1891.

Barlerieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae.

Thunbergioideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Acanthaceae.

Sphacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes two species endemic to Madagascar.

Ritonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

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Borneacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Anisosepalum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

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Trichanthera is a genus of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to central and southern tropical America. The genus was first described by Carl Sigismund Kunth in 1845.

Spathacanthus is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It contains four species native to Mexico and Central America, ranging from central Mexico to Costa Rica.

Ruttya is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes six species native to eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

Poikilacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 13 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from central Mexico to northern Argentina.

Clinacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

Sapphoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to Cuba. Adapted to serpentine soils, they are nickel hyperaccumulators.

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Thysanostigma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

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Anisostachya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 61 species native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros.

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Brunoniella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes six species native to Australia and New Caledonia.

perennial evergreen shrub

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Nelsonioideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Acanthaceae, with a pantropical distribution.

Western ghats endemic herb