Platystemma

Platystemma
Platystemma violoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Platystemma Wall. (1831)
Species:	P. violoides
Binomial name
Platystemma violoides Wall. (1831)
Synonyms
Chirita violoides (Wall.) M.R.Almeida (2001) Didymocarpus hamosa Wall. (1829), not validly publ. Platystemma majus Wall. (1831) Roettlera hamosa (Wall.) Kuntze (1891), not validly publ. Rottlera hamosa Baill. (1894)

Platystemma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.

It contains a single species, Platystemma violoides, an annual native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, south-central China (Yunnan), and Peninsular Malaysia.