''Rhytidophyllum'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
in family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family (biology), 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 Ges ...
, native to the
Caribbean
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islands and northern
South America
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.
Species
23 species are accepted.
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* '' Rhytidophyllum acunae''
* '' Rhytidophyllum asperum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum auriculatum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum berteroanum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum caribaeum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum coccineum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum crenulatum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum cumanense''
* '' Rhytidophyllum daisyanum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum earlei''
* '']Rhytidophyllum exsertum
''Rhytidophyllum'' is a genus of plant in family Gesneriaceae, native to the Caribbean islands and northern South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a cons ...
''
* '' Rhytidophyllum grande''
* '' Rhytidophyllum grandiflorum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum lanatum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum leucomallon''
* '' Rhytidophyllum lomense''
* '' Rhytidophyllum minus''
* '' Rhytidophyllum onacaense''
* '' Rhytidophyllum petiolare''
* '' Rhytidophyllum rhodocalyx''
* '' Rhytidophyllum rupincola''
* '' Rhytidophyllum tomentosum''
* '' Rhytidophyllum vernicosum''
References
External links
GBIF entry
* Melville Thurston Cook, "The Embryology of Rhytidophyllum", Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 35, 1908, pages 179–183.
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Gesneriaceae genera
Flora of Southern America
Taxa described in 1829
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius