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Platystemma
Platystemma violoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Platystemma Wall. (1831)
Species:	P. violoides
Binomial name
Platystemma violoides Wall. (1831)
Synonyms
Chirita violoides (Wall.) M.R.Almeida (2001) Didymocarpus hamosa Wall. (1829), not validly publ. Platystemma majus Wall. (1831) Roettlera hamosa (Wall.) Kuntze (1891), not validly publ. Rottlera hamosa Baill. (1894)

Platystemma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.

It contains a single species, Platystemma violoides, an annual native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, south-central China (Yunnan), and Peninsular Malaysia.

References

1. "Platystemma violoides Wall. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
2. ^ "Platystemma Wall. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

• Didymocarpoideae
• Monotypic Gesneriaceae genera
• Flora of South-Central China
• Flora of the Indian subcontinent
• Flora of Indo-China
• Flora of Peninsular Malaysia
• Flora of Tibet
• Plants described in 1931
• Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich