Stenandrium

From Ancient Greek στενός (stenós, “narrow”) +‎ Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós, “man”) +‎ Latin -ium, referring to the narrow stamen of the plant's flowers. Coined by German botanist, embryologist and natural philosopher Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1836.

Stenandrium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Acanthaceae – shaggytufts or stenandriums, flowering herbaceous perennial plants of the Americas.

   Synonym: (obsolete) Gerardia

   • 1980, Thomas H. Everett, The New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 3226:

     Native to the warmer parts of the Americas, the thirty species of Stenandrium, of the acanthus family Acanthaceae, are little known to gardeners.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Acanthaceae – family; Acantheae – tribe; Aphelandrinae – subtribe

• (genus): Stenandrium mandioccanum – type species; Stenandrium barbatum (early shaggytuft, bearded shaggytuft), Stenandrium dulce^{(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{taxlink}} with {{taxfmt}} if already defined. Add nomul=1 if not defined.)} (sweet shaggytuft), Stenandrium nanum – selected other species

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