Cineraria is now generally treated as a genus of about 50 species of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the family Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

, native to southern Africa

Africa

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. The genus includes herbaceous

Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...

 plants and small subshrub

Subshrub

A subshrub or dwarf shrub is a short woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a similar term.It is distinguished from a shrub by its ground-hugging stems and lower height, with overwintering perennial woody growth typically less than 10–20 cm tall, or by being only weakly woody and/or persisting...

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In the past, the genus was commonly viewed in a broader sense including a number of species from the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

 and Madeira

Madeira

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union...

 which are now transferred to the genus Pericallis

Pericallis

Pericallis is a small genus of about 14 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Canary Islands and Madeira. The genus includes herbaceous plants and small subshrubs. In the past, the genus was often included in either Cineraria or Senecio.The Florist's Cineraria is a...

, including the Florist's Cineraria

Florist's Cineraria

The Florist's Cineraria is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It originated as a hybrid between Pericallis cruenta and P. lanata, both natives of the Canary Islands. The hybrid was first developed in the British royal gardens in 1777...

 (Pericallis x hybrida).

The uses for Cineraria include topical application for the treatment of cataracts.

Species list

• Cineraria abyssinica Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.
• Cineraria albicans N.E.Br.
• Cineraria alchemilloides DC.
• Cineraria anampoza (Baker) Baker
• Cineraria angulosa Lam.
• Cineraria aspera Thunb.
• Cineraria atriplicifolia DC.
• Cineraria austrotransvaalensis Cron
• Cineraria canescens J.C.Wendl. ex Link
• Cineraria cyanomontana Cron
• Cineraria decipiens Harv.
• Cineraria deltoidea Sond.
• Cineraria dryogeton Cron
• Cineraria erodioides DC.
• Cineraria erosa (Thunb.) Harv.
• Cineraria geifolia (L.) L.
  • Othonna geifolia L.
• Cineraria geraniifolia DC.
• Cineraria glandulosa Cron
• Cineraria grandibracteata Hilliard
• Cineraria huilensis Cron
• Cineraria lobata L'Hér.
• Cineraria longipes
  Cineraria longipes
  Cineraria longipes is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It is found only in South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  S.Moore
• Cineraria lyratiformis Cron
  • Cineraria lyrata DC.
• Cineraria magnicephala Cron
• Cineraria mazoensis S.Moore
• Cineraria mollis E.Mey. ex DC.
• Cineraria ngwenyensis Cron
• Cineraria parvifolia Burtt Davy
• Cineraria pinnata O.Hoffm. ex Schinz
• Cineraria platycarpa DC.
• Cineraria pulchra Cron
• Cineraria saxifraga DC.
• Cineraria vagans Hilliard
• Cineraria vallis-pacis Dinter ex Merxm.