Tinnea

Tinnea
Tinnea barteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Scutellarioideae
Genus: Tinnea
Kotschy ex Hook.f.
Type species
Tinnea aethiopica
Kotschy & Peyr.
Synonyms
  • Tinnethamnus Pritz

Tinnea (sunbells) is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae first described in 1867. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa. It was named in honour of the Dutch explorer Alexine Tinne.

Species
  1. Tinnea aethiopica Kotschy ex Hook.f. - widespread from Mali to Somalia south to Mozambique; naturalized in Trinidad & Tobago
  2. Tinnea antiscorbutica Welw. - DRC, Zambia, Angola
  3. Tinnea apiculata Robyns & Lebrun - eastern Africa from Rwanda to Mozambique
  4. Tinnea barbata Vollesen - Eswatini, northern South Africa
  5. Tinnea barteri Gürke - western Africa
  6. Tinnea benguellensis Gürke - Angola
  7. Tinnea coerulea Gürke - DRC, Zambia, Angola
  8. Tinnea eriocalyx Welw. - DRC, Angola, Botswana, Namibia
  9. Tinnea galpinii Briq. - Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa
  10. Tinnea gossweileri Robyns & Lebrun - Angola
  11. Tinnea gracilis Gürke - Tanzania to Zambia
  12. Tinnea mirabilis (Bullock) Vollesen - Tanzania
  13. Tinnea physalis E.A.Bruce - Tanzania
  14. Tinnea platyphylla Briq. - DRC
  15. Tinnea rhodesiana S.Moore - South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Mozambique
  16. Tinnea somalensis Gürke ex Chiov. - Ethiopia
  17. Tinnea vesiculosa Gürke - Tanzania, Malawi
  18. Tinnea vestita Baker - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Botswana
  19. Tinnea zambesiaca Baker - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique