Sutera (plant)
Sutera is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants and shrubs of the family Scrophulariaceae mainly confined to Africa. Taxonomy. "Sutera cordata" was named "Manulea cordata" in 1800 by Thunberg. Bentham renamed it "Chaenostoma" in 1836, Kuntze changed it to "Sutera" in 1891 on the grounds of synonymy. In 1994 Hilliard considered the two names subgenera of "Sutera", but in 2005 Kornhall and Bremer separated the two again, placing "S. cordata" in "Chaenostoma". Species. , "Plants of the World Online" accepted the following species: