Whitfieldia

Genus of flowering plants

Whitfieldia

Whitfieldia elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Acanthaceae
Subfamily:  | Acanthoideae
Tribe:  | Whitfieldieae
Genus:  | Whitfieldia
Hook. (1845)
Synonyms[1]

* Leiophaca Lindau (1911)
* Pounguia Benoist (1938 publ. 1939)
* Stylarthropus Baill. (1890)

Whitfieldia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 13 species of erect or scrambling shrubs native to tropical Africa. The greatest species diversity is in the Guineo-Congolian rainforests of western and central Africa.[1]

## Species

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13 species are accepted:[1]

* Whitfieldia brazzae (Baill.) C.B.Clarke
* Whitfieldia colorata C.B.Clarke ex Stapf
* Whitfieldia elongata (P.Beauv.) De Wild. & T.Durand
* Whitfieldia lateritia Hook.
* Whitfieldia latiflos C.B.Clarke
* Whitfieldia laurentii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke
* Whitfieldia liebrechtsiana De Wild. & T.Durand
* Whitfieldia orientalis Vollesen
* Whitfieldia preussii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke
* Whitfieldia purpurata (Benoist) Heine
* Whitfieldia rutilans Heine
* Whitfieldia stuhlmannii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke
* Whitfieldia thollonii (Baill.) Benoist

## References

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1. ^ a b c Whitfieldia Hook. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 February 2024.

Taxon identifiers

Whitfieldia|

* Wikidata: Q568538
* Wikispecies: Whitfieldia
* APDB: 195931
* CoL: 649FQ
* EoL: 6885921
* GBIF: 3233756
* GRIN: 12823
* iNaturalist: 317604
* IPNI: 1025-1
* IRMNG: 1106599
* NCBI: 103767
* Open Tree of Life: 157163
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1025-1
* Tropicos: 40025985
* WFO: wfo-4000040666

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