''Kohleria amabilis'', the tree gloxinia, is a
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 ...
of the
flowering plant
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belonging to 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), with ...
.
Synonyms
* ''Achimenes amabilis''
(Planch. & Linden) Van Houtte
* ''Achimenes picta''
Benth.
* ''Diastema pictum''
(Benth.) Walp.
* ''Isoloma amabile''
(Planch. & Linden) hort. ex Bellair & St.-Lég.
* ''Isoloma amabilis''
(Planch. & Linden) Bellair & St.-Lég.
* ''Isoloma bogotense'' var. ''amabile''
(Planch. & Linden) Voss
* ''Tydaea amabilis''
Planch. & Linden
* ''Tydaea ceciliae''
André
* ''Tydaea venosa'' hort.
ex Lesc.
Varieties
*''Kohleria amabilis'' var. ''amabilis''
*''Kohleria amabilis'' var. ''bogotensis'' (syn. ''K. bogotensis'')
(G. Nicholson) L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog
Description
''Kohleria amabilis'' can reach a height of . Leaves have a silvery pattern and are egg-shaped, velvety, long. The brightly colored flowers are about long, tubular, slightly nodding, usually pink on the outside with red or purple dots inside. ''Kohleria amabilis'' var. ''bogotensis'' has dark green leaves and yellow and red-orange flowers. Flowering period extends from late winter through the spring and summer. These tropical plants are rhizomatous and have a period of seasonal leafless dormancy.
Distribution
This species is native to
Honduras
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(
Mesoamerica
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) and
Colombia
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.
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References
* Kvist, L.P. & L.E. Skog. 1992
Revision of ''Kohleria'' (Gesneriaceae). ''Smithsonian Contributions to Botany'' 79: 1-83.
* H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3b):178. 1894
External links
''Kohleria bogotensis''PlantillustrationsEncyclopedia of Life
Gesnerioideae
Taxa named by Karl Fritsch
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