Monechma is a genus of plant

Plant

Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 in family Acanthaceae

Acanthaceae

The family Acanthaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species....

, closely related to the genus Justicia

Justicia

Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. The roughly 420 species it contains are native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with two species occurring north into cooler temperate regions...

. It contains the following species (this list may be incomplete):

• Monechma ciliatum (Jacq.) Milne-Redh.
• Monechma cleomoides C. B. Clarke
• Monechma debile (Forssk.) Nees
• Monechma divaricatum (Nees) C.B. Clarke
• Monechma grandiflorum Schinz
• Monechma leucoderme (Schinz) C.B.Clarke
• Monechma serotinum
  Monechma serotinum
  Monechma serotinum is a species of plant in the Acanthaceae family. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.-References:* Craven, P. 2004. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  P.G.Mey.
• Monechma subsessile (Oliv.) C.B. Clarke

Monechma acutum C.B.Clarke

Monechma affine Hochst.

Monechma affine Hochst.

Monechma angustifolium Nees

Monechma angustissimum S.Moore

Monechma arenicola C.B.Clarke

Monechma atherstonei C.B.Clarke

Monechma australe P.G.Mey.

Monechma bracteatum Hochst.

Monechma calcaratum Schinz

Monechma callothamnum J.Munday

Monechma carrissoi Benoist

Monechma ciliatum (Jacq.) Milne-Redh.

Monechma clarkei Schinz

Monechma cleomoides C.B.Clarke

Monechma crassiusculum P.G.Mey.

Monechma debile Nees

Monechma depauperatum C.B.Clarke

Monechma desertorum C.B.Clarke

Monechma distichotrichum (Lindau) P.G.Mey.

Monechma divaricatum C.B.Clarke

Monechma eremum S.Moore

Monechma fimbriatum C.B.Clarke

Monechma floridum C.B.Clarke

Monechma foliosum C.B.Clarke

Monechma genistifolium C.B.Clarke

Monechma glaucifolium S.Moore

Monechma grandiflorum Schinz

Monechma hereroense C.B.Clarke

Monechma hispidum Hochst.

Monechma incanum C.B.Clarke

Monechma leucoderme C.B.Clarke

Monechma linaria C.B.Clarke

Monechma loliaceum K.Schum.

Monechma lolioides C.B.Clarke

Monechma marginatum C.B.Clarke

Monechma molle C.B.Clarke

Monechma mollissimum (Nees) P.G.Mey.

Monechma monechmoides (S.Moore) Hutch.

Monechma namaense C.B.Clarke

Monechma ndellense (Lindau) Miege & Heine

Monechma nepeta C.B.Clarke

Monechma nepetoides C.B.Clarke

Monechma pilosella Nees

Monechma platysepalum S.Moore

Monechma praecox Milne-Redh.

Monechma pseudopatulum C.B.Clarke

Monechma quintasii Benoist

Monechma rigidum S.Moore

Monechma robustum Bond

Monechma salsola C.B.Clarke

Monechma saxatile J.Munday

Monechma scabridum C.B.Clarke

Monechma scabrinerve C.B.Clarke

Monechma serotinum P.G.Mey.

Monechma spartioides C.B.Clarke

Monechma spissum C.B.Clarke

Monechma subsessile C.B.Clarke

Monechma terminale S.Moore

Monechma tettense C.B.Clarke

Monechma tonsum P.G.Mey.

Monechma troglodytica Chiov.

Monechma ukambense C.B.Clarke

Monechma varians C.B.Clarke

Monechma violaceum Nees

Monechma virgultorum S.Moore

Monechma welwitschii C.B.Clarke