{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Mesanthemum africanum imported from iNaturalist photo 12203022 on 17 December 2023.jpg | image_caption = ''M. africanum'' | taxon = Mesanthemum | authority = Körn. | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = }}
'''''Mesanthemum''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.<ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Mesanthemum'' Körn. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:14925-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=11 April 2026}}</ref><ref>Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref>
==Species== 16 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> *''Mesanthemum africanum'' <small>Moldenke</small> – Mozambique, Zimbabwe *''Mesanthemum albidum'' <small>Lecomte</small> – Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone *''Mesanthemum alenicola'' {{small|S.M.Phillips}} – Equatorial Guinea *''Mesanthemum angustitepalum'' <small>Kimp</small> – Zaïre *''Mesanthemum auratum'' <small>Lecomte</small> – Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau *''Mesanthemum bennae'' <small>Jacq.-Fél</small> – Guinea *''Mesanthemum cupricola'' <small>Kimp</small> – Zaïre *''Mesanthemum glabrum'' <small>Kimp</small> – Zaïre, Angola, Zambia *''Mesanthemum jaegeri'' <small>Jacq.-Fél</small> – Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville *''Mesanthemum pilosum'' <small>Kimp</small> – Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi *''Mesanthemum prescottianum'' <small>(Bong.) Körn.</small> – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon *''Mesanthemum pubescens'' <small>(Lam.) Körn.</small> – Madagascar *''Mesanthemum radicans'' <small>(Benth.) Körn.</small> – widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique *''Mesanthemum reductum'' <small>H.E.Hess</small> – Congo-Brazzaville, Angola *''Mesanthemum tuberosum'' <small> Lecomte</small> - Guinea *''Mesanthemum variabile'' <small>Kimp</small> – Zaïre, Zambia
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Category:Eriocaulaceae Category:Poales genera Category:Flora of the Afrotropical realm Category:Plants described in 1856 Category:Taxa named by Friedrich August Körnicke