''Alloplectus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

plants in the family

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), wi ...

. A recent revision of the genus includes five

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to ''

Crantzia ''Crantzia'' is a plant genus in the family Gesneriaceae. ''Crantzia'' species grow in damp or wet forests, mostly on Caribbean islands. Some are epiphytes, others are subshrubs or herbaceous plants with fibrous roots. Several taxa from the Ges ...

'', '' Glossoloma'', and '' Drymonia''.

Species

* ''

Alloplectus aquatilis ''Alloplectus'' is a genus of Neotropical plants in the family Gesneriaceae. A recent revision of the genus includes five species, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to ''Crantzia'', '' Glos ...

'' C.V. Morton * ''

Alloplectus hispidus ''Alloplectus'' is a genus of Neotropical plants in the family Gesneriaceae. A recent revision of the genus includes five species, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to ''Crantzia'', '' Glos ...

'' (Kunth) Mart. * ''

Alloplectus inflatus ''Alloplectus'' is a genus of Neotropical plants in the family Gesneriaceae. A recent revision of the genus includes five species, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to ''Crantzia ''Crant ...

'' J.L. Clark & L.E. Skog * ''

Alloplectus tessmannii ''Alloplectus'' is a genus of Neotropical plants in the family Gesneriaceae. A recent revision of the genus includes five species, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to ''Crantzia'', '' Glos ...

'' Mansf. * '' Alloplectus weirii'' (Kuntze) Wiehler

Transferred species

* ''Alloplectus herthae'' = '' Glossoloma herthae'' * ''Alloplectus martinianus'' = '' Glossoloma martinianum'' * ''Alloplectus penduliflorus'' = '' Glossoloma penduliflorum'' * ''

Alloplectus tetragonus ''Alloplectus'' is a genus of Neotropical plants in the family Gesneriaceae. A recent revision of the genus includes five species, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to ''Crantzia'', '' Glos ...

'' = '' Glossoloma tetragonum''

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''Alloplectus''
in A. Weber & L. E. Skog 2007
Genera of Gesneriaceae
Gesnerioideae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Gesneriaceae genera {{Gesneriaceae-stub