VASCULAR PLANT FAMILIES and GENERA

List of Genera in COMMELINACEAE

Car = Cartonematoideae; Comm-Comm = Commelinoideae-Commelineae, Comm-Pal = -Palisoteae, Comm-Tra = -Tradescantieae; Tri = Triceratelloideae

Bold, accepted name; italics, synonym.

Aclisia E. Meyer = Pollia Thunberg - Comm-Comm
Aetheolirion Forman - Comm-Tra
Allosperma Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Allotria Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Amelina C. B. Clarke = Aneilema R. Brown - Comm-Tra
Amischophacelus R. S. Rao & Kammathy = Cyanotis D. Don - Comm-Tra
Amischotolype Hasskarl - Comm-Tra
Ananthopus Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Aneilema R. Brown - Comm-Comm
Anthericopsis Engler - Comm-Comm
Aploleia Rafinesque = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Athyrocarpus Bentham = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm

Ballya Brenan = Aneilema R. Brown- Comm-Tra
Baoulia A. Chevalier = Murdannia Royle - Comm-Comm
Bauschia Warming = Aneilema R. Brown - Comm-Tra
Belosynapsis Hasskarl - Comm-Tra
Buforrestia C. B. Clarke - Comm-Comm

Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Campelia Richard = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra
Cartonema R. Brown - Car
Chamaeanthus Ule = Geogenanthus Ule - Comm-Tra
Cochliostema Lem. - Comm-Tra
Coleotrype C. B. Clarke - Comm-Tra
Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Commelinantia Tharp = Tinantia Scheidw.- Comm-Tra
Commelinopsis Pichon = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Cuthbertia Small = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Cyanotis D. Don - Comm-Tra
Cymbispatha Pichon = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra

Descantaria Schlechtendahl = Tripogandra Rafinesque- Comm-Tra
Dichorisandra J. C. Mikan - Comm-Tra
Dictyospermum Wight - Comm-Comm
Dintea Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Disecocarpus Hasskarl = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Disgrega Hasskarl = Tripogandra Rafinesque - Comm-Tra
Donnellia Donnell Smith = Tripogandra Rafinesque - Comm-Tra

Elasis D. R. Hunt - Comm-Tra
Etheosanthes Rafinesque = Belosynapsis Hasskarl - Comm-
Erlexebia Medikus = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Eudipetala Rafineque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm

Floscopa Loureiro - Comm-Comm
Forrestia A. Richard = Amischotolype Hasskarl- Comm-Tra

Geogenanthus Ule - Comm-Tra
Gibasis Rafinesque - Comm-Tra
Gibasoides D. R. Hunt - Comm-Tra
Gillettia Rendle = Anthericopsis Engler- Comm-Comm

Hadrodemas H. E. Moore = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Hedwigia Medikus = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Heminema Rafinesque = Tripogandra Rafinesque- Comm-Tra
Heterocarpus Wight = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm

Isanthina Steudel = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm

Lamallales Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Lamprodithyros Hasskarl = Aneilema R. Brown - Comm-Tra
Lechea Loureiro = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Leiandra Rafinesque = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Leptocallisia (Bentham & J. D. Hooker) Pichon = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
LeptorhoeoHemsley = Tripogandra Rafinesque- Comm-Tra

Mandonia Hasskarl = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra
Matudanthus D. R. Hunt - Comm-Tra
Murdannia Royle - Comm-Comm

Neodonnellia Rose = Tripogandra Rafinesque - Comm-Tra
Neomandonia Hutchinson = Tradescantia L. - Comm-Tra
Neotreleasea Rose = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra
Nephralles Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm

Omphalotheca Hasskarl = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Ovidia Rafinesque = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm

Palisota Endlicher - Comm-Pal
Perosanthera Lebrun & Stork = Aneilema R. Brown - Comm-Tra
Phaeosphaerion Hasskarl = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Phyodina Rafinesque = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Plowmanianthus Faden & C. R. Hardy - Comm-Tra
Pollia Thunberg - Comm-Comm
Polyspatha Bentham - Comm-Comm
Porandra D. Y. Hong - Comm-Tra
Pseudoparis H. Perrier - Comm-Comm
Pyrrheima Hasskarl = Siderasis Rafinesque - Comm-?Tra

Rectanthera O. Degener = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Rhoeo Hance = Tradescantia L. - Comm-Tra
Rhopalephora Hasskarl - Comm-

Sauvallea W. Wright - Comm-Tra
Separotheca Waterf. = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra
Setcreasea K. Schumann & Sydow = Tradescantia L .- Comm-Tra
Siderasis Rafinesque - Comm-?Tra
Spathodithyros Hasskarl = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Spatholirion Ridley - Comm-Tra
Spironema Lindley = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Stanfieldiella Brenan - Comm-
Streptolirion Edgew. - Comm-Tra

Tapheocarpa = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Thyrsanthemum Pichon - Comm-Tra
Tinantia Scheidw. - Comm-Tra
Tonningia Jussieu = Cyanotis D. Don - Comm-Tra
Tradescantella Small = Callisia Loefling - Comm-Tra
Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra
Treleasea Rose = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra
Tricarpelema J. K. Morton - Comm-Comm
Triceratella Brenan - Tri
Tripogandra Rafinesque - Comm-Tra
Trithyrocarpus Hasskarl = Commelina L. - Comm-Comm
Tropitria Rafinesque = Tradescantia L. - Comm-Tra

Weldenia Schultes f. - Comm-Tra

Zebrina Schnizlein = Tradescantia L.- Comm-Tra

Synonymy from and Hunt (2020) and Zuntini et al. (2021).