Mesanthemum is a genus of plants in the Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar. Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp - Zaïre Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél - Guinea Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp - Zaïre Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville Mesanthemum pilosum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi Mesanthemum prescottianum (Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon Mesanthemum pubescens (Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique Mesanthemum reductum H.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola Mesanthemum rutenbergianum Körn. - Madagascar Mesanthemum variabile Kimp - Zaïre, Zambia References Eriocaulaceae Taxa named by Friedrich August Körnicke