Cyphia

Cyphia is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family, native to Africa; and particularly South Africa. It has been placed in its own subfamily, Cyphioideae. It is closely related to the genus Lobelia. Cyphia comes in shades of white to mauve, whereas lobelias have strong colours of blue to purple. Species in this genus have a bilabiate corolla; with 3 lobes on top and 2 below (as opposed to Lobelia, which has 2 lobes on top and 3 below).

Accepted species:

• Cyphia alba <small>N.E.Br.</small> – Zimbabwe
• Cyphia alicedalensis <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia angustifolia <small>Eckl. & Zeyh. ex C.Presl in C.F.Eklon & K.L.P.Zeyher</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia aspergilloides <small>E.Wimm.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia basiloba <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia belfastica <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia bolusii <small>E.Phillips</small> – Eswatini
• Cyphia brachyandra <small>Thulin</small> – Tanzania, Malawi
• Cyphia brevifolia <small>Thulin</small> – Angola
• Cyphia brummittii <small>Thulin</small> – Malawi
• Cyphia bulbosa <small>(L.) P.J.Bergius</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia comptonii <small>Bond</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia corylifolia <small>Harv.</small> – KwaZulu-Natal
• Cyphia couroublei <small>Bamps & Malaisse</small> – Congo
• Cyphia crenata <small>(Thunb.) C.Presl</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia decora <small>Thulin</small> – Malawi
• Cyphia deltoidea <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – KwaZulu-Natal
• Cyphia digitata <small>(Thunb.) Willd.</small> – Namibia, South Africa
• Cyphia elata <small>Harv</small> – South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
• Cyphia erecta <small>De Wild.</small> – Tanzania, Zambia, Congo, Malawi
• Cyphia eritreana <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – Eritrea, Ethiopia
• Cyphia galpinii <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia gamopetala <small>J.Duvign. & Denaeyer</small> – Congo
• Cyphia georgica <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia glabra <small>E.Wimm.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia glandulifera <small>Hochst. ex A.Rich.</small> – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi
• Cyphia heterophylla <small>C.Presl in C.F.Eklon & K.L.P.Zeyher</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia incisa <small>(Thunb.) Willd.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia lasiandra <small>Diels</small> – Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique
• Cyphia linarioides <small>C.Presl in C.F.Eklon & K.L.P.Zeyher</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia longiflora <small>Schltr.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia longifolia <small>N.E.Br.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia longilobata <small>E.Phillips</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia longipedicellata <small>E.Wimm.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia maculosa <small>E.Phillips</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia mafingensis <small>Thulin</small> – Malawi
• Cyphia mazoensis <small>S.Moore</small> – Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Cyphia natalensis <small>E.Phillips</small> – KwaZulu-Natal
• Cyphia nyikensis <small>Thulin</small> – Malawi
• Cyphia oligotricha <small>Schltr.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia pectinata <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – Eswatini
• Cyphia persicifolia <small>C.Presl in E.H.F.Meyer</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia phillipsii <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia phyteuma <small>(L.) Willd.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia ramosa <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – Free State
• Cyphia reducta <small>E.Wimm.</small> – Zimbabwe, Mozambique
• Cyphia revoluta <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia richardsiae <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – Tanzania, Congo, Malawi
• Cyphia rogersii <small>S.Moore</small> – Eswatini, South Africa
• Cyphia rupestris <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – Tanzania
• Cyphia salteri <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia schlechteri <small>E.Phillips</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia smutsii <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia stenodonta <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia stenopetala <small>Diels</small> – South Africa, Botswana
• Cyphia stenophylla <small>(E.Wimm.) E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia stheno <small>Webb in W.J.Hooker</small> – Angola
• Cyphia subtubulata <small>E.Wimm. in H.G.A.Engler</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia sylvatica <small>Eckl. & Zeyh.</small> – South Africa, Namibia
• Cyphia tenera <small>Diels</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia transvaalensis <small>E.Phillips</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia triphylla <small>E.Phillips</small> – Lesotho, South Africa
• Cyphia tysonii <small>E.Phillips</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia ubenensis <small>Engl.</small> – Tanzania
• Cyphia undulata <small>Eckl. ex C.Presl in C.F.Eklon & K.L.P.Zeyher</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia volubilis <small>(Burm.f.) Willd.</small> – South Africa
• Cyphia zeyheriana <small>C.Presl in C.F.Eklon & K.L.P.Zeyher</small> – South Africa

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