Palisota

Palisota is a genus of plant in family Commelinaceae, first described in 1828. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa.


 * Species
 * Palisota alopecurus Pellegr. - Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville
 * Palisota ambigua (P.Beauv.) C.B.Clarke - central Africa from Nigeria to Angola
 * Palisota barteri Hook.f. - western + central Africa
 * Palisota bicolor Mast. - Bioko
 * Palisota bogneri Brenan - Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
 * Palisota brachythyrsa Mildbr. - Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre
 * Palisota bracteosa C.B.Clarke  - western + central Africa; naturalized in Trinidad & Tobago
 * Palisota congolana Hua - Congo-Brazzaville
 * Palisota flagelliflora Faden - Cameroon
 * Palisota gracilior Mildbr. - Cameroon
 * Palisota hirsuta (Thunb.) K.Schum. - western + central Africa
 * Palisota lagopus Mildbr. - Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea
 * Palisota laurentii De Wild. - Zaïre
 * Palisota laxiflora C.B.Clarke - São Tomé, Annobon
 * Palisota mannii C.B.Clarke - central Africa from Nigeria to Tanzania
 * Palisota myriantha K.Schum - Luanda region of Angola
 * Palisota orientalis K.Schum. - Tanzania
 * Palisota pedicellata K.Schum - São Tomé, Annobon
 * Palisota preussiana K.Schum. ex C.B.Clarke - Bioko, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville
 * Palisota pynaertii De Wild. - Zaïre
 * Palisota satabiei Brenan - Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville
 * Palisota schweinfurthii C.B.Clarke - central Africa from Nigeria to Tanzania and south to Zambia
 * Palisota tholloni Hua - Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre
 * Palisota thyrsostachya Mildbr. - Zaïre
 * Palisota waibelii Mildbr. - Cameroon