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(Last Modified On 8/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/7/2013)
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Genus
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Gloxinia L'Her. in Aiton
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Hort. Kew. 2: 331. 1789, non Gloxinia Regel.
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Note
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TYPE: G. maculata L'H'r., illegitimate name for Martyjnia perennis L. = Gloxinia perennis (L.) Fritsch.
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Synonym
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Eucolum R. A. Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. 98. 1796. TYPE: E. crassifolium R. A. Salisb., illegitimate name for Martynia perennis L. - Gloxinia perennis (L.) Fritsch. Mandirola Decne., Rev. Hort. 20 [ser. 3, 2]: 468. 1848. TYPE: M. multiflora (G. Gardner) Decne. = Gloxinia hirsuta (DC.) Wiehl. Salisia Regel, Flora 32: 179. 1849, illegitimate substitute name for Gloxinia L'He'r. TYPE: Salisia gloxiniaeflora Regel, illegitimate name for Martynia perennis L. Gloxinia perennis (L.) Fritsch. Seemannia Regel, Gartenflora 4: 183. 1855. TYPE: S. tertnifolia Regel - Gloxinia sylvatica (Kunth) Wiehl. Achimenes subg. Mandirola (Decne.) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 434. 1865. Achimenes sect. Mandirola (Decne.) Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. P1. 2: 999. 1876. Achimenes sect. Kohleriopsis Fritsch in Engler & Pranti, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 300. 1897. TYPE: A. heppielloides Fritsch = Gloxinia gymnostorna Grisebach. Fritschiantha Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3(2): 241. 1898. Based on Seemannia Regel Gloxinia L'He'r. Achimenes sect. Tydaeopsis Fritsch, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50: 395. 1913. TYPE: Achimenes rusbyi N. L. Britton = Gloxinia gymnostoma Grisebach. Fiebrigia Fritsch, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50: 397. 1913. TYPE: F. digitaliflora Fritsch = Gloxiinia gymnostoma Grisebach.
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Description
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Perennial herbs from scaly rhizomes; stems usually erect. Leaves opposite, nearly equal in a pair, the base not oblique, entire or toothed; petiolate. In- florescences of single flowers in the axils of the leaves or arranged opposite in a pair on racemes in the axils of reduced leaves. Flowers showy; floral tube often elongate, narrow, grooved; calyx 5-lobed; corolla white, blue, lavender, rose pink, tubular, funnelform to campanulate, erect or oblique in the calyx, the limb of 5 nearly equal lobes; fertile stamens 4, the filaments often coiling after anthesis, the anthers coherent by their apices; disc absent or annular when present; ovary inferior. Fruit an elongated capsule; seeds numerous.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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Gloxinia is a genus of about 10 species distributed in South America in Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Some species are in cultivation as ornamentals and occasionally escape from cultivation in tropical regions. The type species, G. perennis, may be wild in Panamai but its rarity and its occurrence near areas of habitation or which have been under settlement for long periods of time suggest that the species may, in fact, be naturalized. The genus may be distinguished most easily from the closely related Mono- pyle by the oblique leaves in the latter genus. The commonly cultivated plants known as "Florists-Gloxinia" are actually cultivars of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd. ex Ker-Gawl.) Hiern. Gloxinia is named for Benjamin Peter Gloxin, an Alsatian botanist and physi- cian of Colmar of the late 18th Century.
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Common
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Florists-Gloxinia
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Reference
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Hoehne, F. C. 1964. 0 genero Gloxinia no Brasil. Arq. Bot. Estado Sdo Paulo 3(6): 315-335. Vogel, S. 1966. Parffimsammelnde Bienen als Bestduber von Orchideen und Gloxinia. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 113 (3-4): 302-361.
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