Sutera is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants and shrubs of the family Scrophulariaceae

Scrophulariaceae

Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, are a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers with bilateral or rarely radial symmetry. Members of the Scrophulariaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority found in temperate areas, including...

 mainly confined to Africa. S cordata was named Manulea cordata in 1800 by Thunberg. Bentham

George Bentham

George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

 renamed it Chaenostoma in 1836, Kuntze changed it to Sutera in 1891 on the grounds of Synonymy. In 1994 Hilliard

Olive Mary Hilliard

Olive Mary Hilliard is a noted South African botanist and taxonomist.Hilliard attended Natal University in the years 1943-47 where she obtained an MSc and later a PhD. She worked at the National Herbarium in Pretoria in 1947-48 and was a lecturer in botany at Natal University from 1954 to 1962...

 considered the two terms subgenera of Sutera, but in 2005 Kornhall and Bremer (see external link) separated the two again, placing S cordata in Chaenostoma.

Selected species:

• Sutera calcina
• Sutera cordata syn. Sutera diffusus, Chaenostoma cordatum - Bacopa
• Sutera floribunda
• Sutera grandiflora

External links

• Pretoria National Botanical Garden: Chaenostoma cordata
• Kristo Pienaar: South African 'What Flower Is That'? Struik, 2003. ISBN 1868724417, 9781868724413
• Kornhall and Bremer: New circumscription of the tribe Limoselleae (Scrophulariaceae) that includes the taxa of the tribe Manuleeae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society Volume 146 Issue 4, Pages 453 - 467 2004
• Aluka: Sutera