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{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Sabaea exacoides flower.JPG
|image_caption = ''[[Sabaea exacoides]]''
|taxon = Sebaea
|authority = [[Sol.]] ex [[R.Br.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Sebaea''''' is a [[genus]] of annual plants in the family [[Gentianaceae]].<ref name=":1">{{cite journal|last1=Kissling|first1=Jonathan|last2=Yuan|first2=Yong-Ming|last3=Küpfer|first3=Philippe|last4=Mansion|first4=Guilhem|title=The polyphyletic genus ''Sebaea'' (Gentianaceae): A step forward in understanding the morphological and karyological evolution of the Exaceae|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=53|issue=3|pages=734–748|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.025|pmid=19646540|date=December 2009}}</ref> Species occur in Africa, Madagascar, India, China, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{cite journal|last1=Pirie|first1=Michael|last2=Litsios|first2=Glenn|last3=Bellstedt|first3=Dirk|last4=Salamin|first4=Nicolas|last5=Kissling|first5=Jonathan|title=Back to Gondwanaland: can ancient vicariance explain (some) Indian Ocean disjunct plant distributions?|journal=Biology Letters|volume=11|issue=6|doi=10.1098/rsbl.2015.0086|pmid=26063747|pmc=4528461|page=20150086|date=June 2015}}</ref> The genus was paraphyletic and has been split in four genera: ''[[Exochaenium]]'', ''[[Klackenbergia]]'', ''[[Lagenias]]'' and ''Sebaea'' ''s.str.''.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Kissling|first=Jonathan|date=2012-01-01|title=Taxonomy of Exochaenium and Lagenias: Two Resurrected Genera of Tribe Exaceae (Gentianaceae)|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=37|issue=1|pages=238–253|doi=10.1600/036364412X616800|issn=0363-6445}}</ref><ref name =":4">{{Cite journal|last1=Kissling|first1=Jonathan|last2=Buerki|first2=Sven|last3=Mansion|first3=Guilhem|date=2009-08-01|title=Klackenbergia (Gentianaceae – Exaceae), a new endemic genus from Madagascar|journal=Taxon|volume=58|issue=3|pages=907–912|doi=10.1002/tax.583018}}</ref> [[Synapomorphy|Synapomorphies]] for ''Sebaea s.str.'' include the presence of extra stigma along the style<ref name =":5">{{cite journal|last1=Kissling|first1=Jonathan|last2=Endress|first2=Peter K.|last3=Bernasconi|first3=Giorgina|title=Ancestral and monophyletic presence of diplostigmaty in Sebaea (Gentianaceae) and its potential role as a morphological mixed mating strategy|journal=New Phytologist|date=2009|volume=184|issue=2|pages=303–310|doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03000.x|pmid=19796337|url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/16787/files/Kissling_Jonathan_-_Ancestral_and_monophyletic_presence_20091228.pdf}}</ref> (called [[diplostigmaty]]<ref name =":6">{{cite journal|last1=Marloth|first1=R.|title=A diplostigmatic plant, ''Sebaea exacoides'' (L.) Schinz (''Belmontia cordata'' L.).|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa|date=1909|volume=1|issue=1 |pages=311–314|doi=10.1080/00359190909520037|bibcode=1909TRSSA...1..311M |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1430379}}</ref><ref name =":7">{{cite journal|last1=Kissling|first1=Jonathan|last2=Barrett|first2=Spencer C.H.|title=Diplostigmaty in plants: a novel mechanism that provides reproductive assurance|journal=Biology Letters|date=2013|volume=9|issue=5|doi=10.1098/rsbl.2013.0495|pmid=23945209|pmc=3971688|page=20130495}}</ref>) and the shape of the testa cells of the seeds.<ref name=":1"/>
The name honors [[Albertus Seba]] (1665–1736), a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.<ref name=APNI/>
Species include (non exhaustive list):
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*''[[Sebaea albens]]'' <small>(L. f.) Roem. & Schult.</small>
*''[[Sebaea albidiflora]]''  <small>F.Muell.</small> - white sebaea<ref name=APNI>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=Sebaea|title=''Sebaea'' |access-date=3 January 2011|work= [[Australian Plant Name Index]] (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}</ref>
*''[[Sebaea ambigua]]'' <small>Cham.</small>
*''[[Sebaea amicorum]]'' <small>I.M. Oliv. & Beyers</small><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Oliver |first1=I.M. |last2=Beyers |first2=J.B.P. |title=A new species of Sebaea from the Swartberg range Western Cape, South Africa. |journal=Bothalia |date=2001 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=207–209 |doi=10.4102/abc.v31i2.526 |url=https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/download/526/467 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
*''[[Sebaea aurea]]'' <small>(L. f.) Roem. & Schult.</small>
*''[[Sebaea bojeri]]'' <small>Griseb.</small>
*''[[Sebaea brachyphylla]]'' <small>Griseb.</small>
*''[[Sebaea capitata]]'' <small>Cham. & Schlechtdl.</small>
**''[[var. capitata]]'' <small>Cham. & Schlechtdl.</small>
**''[[var. sclerosepala]]'' <small>(Schinz) Marais</small>
*''[[Sebaea chironioides]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea elongata]]'' <small>E. Mey.</small>
*''[[Sebaea erosa]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea exacoides]]'' <small>(L.) Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea exigua]]'' <small>(Oliv.) Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea filiformis]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea fourcadei]]'' <small>Marais</small>
*''[[Sebaea grisebachiana]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea hymenosepala]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea junodii]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea laxa]]'' <small>N.E.Br.</small>
*''[[Sebaea leiostyla]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea longicaulis]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea macrophylla]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea marlothii]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea membranaceae]]'' <small>Hill</small>
*''[[Sebaea microphylla]]'' <small>(Edgew.) Knobl.</small>
*''[[Sebaea micrantha]]'' <small>(Cham. & Schlechtdel.) Schinz</small>
**''[[var. micrantha]]'' <small>(Cham. & Schlechtdel.) Schinz</small>
**''[[var. intermedia]]'' <small>(Cham. & Schlechtdel.) Marais</small>
*''[[Sebaea minutiflora]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea minutissima]]'' <small>Hilliard & B.L.Burtt</small><ref name= :10>Hilliard O.M. and Burtt B.L. 1982. Notes on some plants of Southern Africa chiefly from Natal: IX. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg 40, 247-298.</ref>
*''[[Sebaea natalensis]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea ovata]]'' <small>(Labill.) R. Br.</small> - yellow sebaea,<ref name=APNI/> yellow centaury
*''[[Sebaea pentendra]]'' <small>E. Mey.</small>
**''[[var. burchellii]]'' <small>(Gilg) Marais</small>
**''[[var. pentendra]]'' <small>E. Mey.</small>
*''[[Sebaea pleurostigmatosa]]'' <small>Hilliard & B.L. Burtt</small><ref name= :11>Hilliard O.M. and Burtt B.L. 1983. Notes on some plants of Southern Africa chiefly from Natal: X. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg 41, 304-306.</ref>
*''[[Sebaea procumbens]]'' <small>A.W. Hill</small>
*''[[Sebaea radiata]]'' <small>Hilliard & B.L.Burtt</small><ref name=":11" />
*''[[Sebaea ramosissima]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea rara]]'' <small>W. Dod</small>
*''[[Sebaea rehmannii]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea repens]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea scabra]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea schlechteri]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea sedoides]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
**''[[var. confertiflora]]'' <small>(Schinz) Marais</small>
**''[[var. sedoides]]'' <small>Gilg</small>
**''[[var. schoenlandii]]'' <small>(Schinz) Marais</small>
*''[[Sebaea solaris]]'' <small>Kissling</small><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kissling |first1=Jonathan |last2=Zeltner |first2=Louis |title=Sebaea solaris (Gentianaceae), a new species from the Western cape of South Africa |journal=South African Journal of Botany |date=2019 |volume=123 |pages=20–22 |doi=10.1016/j.sajb.2019.02.002|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*''[[Sebaea spathulata]]'' <small>Steud.</small>
*''[[Sebaea stricta]]'' <small>(E. Mey.) Gilg</small>
*''[[Sebaea sulphurea]]'' <small>Cham. & Schlechtdl.</small>
*''[[Sebaea thomasii]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
*''[[Sebaea zeyheri]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
**''[[var. acutiloba]]'' <small>(Schinz) Marais</small>
**''[[var. cleistantha]]'' <small>(R.A. Dyer) Marais</small>
**''[[var. zeyheri]]'' <small>Schinz</small>
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