{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Schultesianthus megalandrus.jpg | image_caption = ''Schultesianthus megalandrus'' | taxon = Schultesianthus | authority = Hunz. }}

'''''Schultesianthus''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Schultesianthus'' Hunz. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298304-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

Its native range is from southern Mexico down to Venezuela and Peru. It is also found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panamá.<ref name="POWO" />

The genus ''Schultesianthus'' was erected in 1977 by the Argentine botanist Armando Theodoro Hunziker and is named in honour of the American biologist Richard Evans Schultes.<ref name="POWO"/><ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>

==Species== The following species are recognised in the genus ''Schultesianthus'':<ref name="POWO" /> *''Schultesianthus coriaceus'' {{small|(Kuntze) Hunz.}} *''Schultesianthus crosbyanus'' {{small|(D'Arcy) S.Knapp}} *''Schultesianthus dudleyi'' {{small|Bernardello & Hunz.}} *''Schultesianthus leucanthus'' {{small|(Donn.Sm.) Hunz.}} *''Schultesianthus megalandrus'' {{small|(Dunal) Hunz.}} *''Schultesianthus odorifer'' {{small|(Cuatrec.) Hunz.}} *''Schultesianthus uniflorus'' {{small|(Lundell) S.Knapp}} *''Schultesianthus venosus'' {{small|(Standl. & C.V.Morton) S.Knapp}}

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Category:Solanaceae Category:Solanaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1977 Category:Flora of Southeastern Mexico Category:Flora of Southwestern Mexico Category:Flora of Central America Category:Flora of Venezuela Category:Flora of western South America