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Conservation Status

NatureServe: G3 Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Physical Description

Family Gesneriaceae:

Herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, whorled or basal, rosette forming; exstipulate; usually simple, rarely shallowly to deeply lobed, pinnately or rarely palmately veined. Inflorescences usually cymes, rarely racemes, axillary, often near apex and appearing terminal; usually pedunculate. Flowers perfect, zygomorphic, seldom actinomorphic. Calyx actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic; usually (4 or) 5-divided. Corolla gamopetalous, zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic; usually 2-lipped. Fertile stamens 2 or 4, then often didynamous, rarely 5, epipetalous; anthers free or coherent, thecae 2, parallel, divergent, or divaricate; staminodes 1-3 or absent. Disc ringlike to cupular, rarely absent. Ovary superior in all Old World taxa [half inferior, or inferior], 1-loculed; gynophore seldom present; placentas (1 or) 2, parietal, rarely 2-loculed, placenta 1 per locule and axile; ovules numerous, anatropous. Style 1; stigmas 1 or 2. Fruit usually capsular, loculicidal, septicidal, or circumscissile, rarely a berry, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, fusiform to ellipsoid or ovoid, minute, sometimes with appendages at 1 or both ends, with or without endosperm; embryo straight, cotyledons equal or unequal after germination.

About 133 genera and 3000 species: Africa, Central and South America, E and S Asia, S Europe, Oceania; 56 genera (25 endemic) and 442 species (354 endemic) in China.

A few foreign well-known ornamental species are cultivated in China, including the florist's gloxinia, Sinningia speciosa (Loddiges) Hiern, and African violet, Saintpaulia ionantha Wendland.

The two ovary carpels may each produce a stigma; these stigmas are fused into a single structure. Some students of Gesneriaceae have considered the stigma to be single and either simple (capitate) or 2-lobed, whereas others consider each of the two stigmas as units. We have maintained the latter usage, but a family-wide investigation of stigma development is needed. The distinction can be blurred, however, because the stigmas may be completely fused into one with a capitate apex (as in Didymocarpus) or one of the two carpels or stigmas may be aborted resulting in a single stigma that may or may not be 2-lobed.^[1]

Genus Cyrtandra:

Herbs, shrubs, or seldom small trees, perennial, terrestrial, not rhizomatous. Stems branched or simple. Leaves usually few, along stem, opposite, whorled, or rarely alternate, equal to subequal in a pair; leaf blade glabrous to densely pubescent, pilose, villous, or sericeous, base attenuate to cuneate, rarely to cordate. Inflorescences lax or dense, axillary or rarely cauliflorous, 1- to many-flowered cymes; bracts 2 or absent, opposite. Calyx actinomorphic or zygomorphic; 2-5(or 6) -lobed; lobes equal to unequal. Corolla white to yellow, occasionally green, orange, reddish, or purplish, zygomorphic or rarely actinomorphic, inside glabrous to pubescent; tube campanulate to salverform, funnelform, or cylindric, not swollen, usually much longer than limb; limb usually 2-lipped; adaxial lip 2-lobed, shorter than to slightly exceeding abaxial lip; abaxial lip 3-lobed, lobes equal or central lobe longer, apex rounded or obtuse, rarely acute. Stamens 2, adnate to abaxial side of corolla tube near middle, usually included; anthers basifixed to dorsifixed, coherent or free, thecae slightly divergent to divergent, confluent or not, dehiscing longitudinally; connective not projecting or apiculate; staminodes 2 or 3, adnate to adaxial side of corolla tube. Disc ringlike or rarely cupular. Ovary ovoid to oblong, 1-loculed; placentas 2, parietal, projecting inward, 2-cleft. Stigma 1, terminal, capitate to ovoid or obtriangular, undivided or sometimes 2-lobed. Berry fleshy to leathery, ovoid to oblong, slightly longer to shorter than calyx, indehiscent. Seeds unappendaged.

About 350-600 species: SE Asia, Pacific Islands; one species in China.^[2]

Habit: Shrub

Distribution

Range and Population

Oceania

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cyrtandra:

There are approximately 1,164 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: C. argentata latifolia · C. kealiae urceolata · C. aclada · C. acmule · C. acriserrata · C. acuminata · C. acuminifolia · C. acutangula · C. adine · C. adnata · C. adpressa · C. adusta · C. aequalis · C. aeruginosa · C. agrihanensis · C. agusanensis · C. ahome · C. alata (Cyrtandra) · C. alaustri · C. alba · C. albertisi · C. albibracteata · C. albula · C. alikaensis · C. alnea (Cyrtandra) · C. alnifolia · C. aloisiana · C. alvarezii · C. ambigua (Ambiguous Cyrtandra) · C. ambiqua · C. amicta · C. amische · C. ammitophila · C. ampla · C. amplifolia · C. anatolike · C. anaxie · C. andersonii · C. aneiteensis · C. angularis · C. angustielliptica · C. angustii · C. angustivenosa · C. anise · C. anisophylla · C. anisopoda · C. anthropophagorum · C. antoniana · C. antuana · C. apaensis · C. apiculata · C. apoensis · C. arachnoidea · C. arborescens · C. arbuscula · C. areolata · C. areolata var. grandis · C. arfakensis · C. argentata · C. argentata subsp. latifolia · C. aristata · C. asaroides · C. asikii · C. ataute · C. atherocalyx · C. athrocarpa · C. atomigyna (Cyrtandra) · C. atrichoides · C. atrichos · C. atropurpurea · C. attenuata · C. audensis · C. augusti · C. augustii · C. aundensis · C. aurantiaca · C. auranticarpa · C. aurantiicarpa · C. aurea · C. aureo-sericea · C. aureotincta · C. auriculata · C. austrohiloensis · C. axillantha · C. axillaris · C. axilliflora (Axilflower Cyrtandra) · C. badia · C. baeotricha · C. baileyi · C. banyingii · C. barbata · C. barnesii · C. basiflora · C. basipartita (Cyrtandra) · C. basirotundata · C. bataanensis · C. bataviensis · C. beamanii · C. beccarii · C. beckmanni

Bibliography

• Wang Wentsai, Pan Kaiyu, & Li Zhenyu. 1990. Gesneriaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 125-581.

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Notes

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Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 03, 2008:

• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 34205
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13748046
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:379747-1
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDGES03330
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CYME7
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 34185

Footnotes:

1. Wencai Wang, Kai-yu Pan, Zhen-yu Li, Anna L. Weitzman & Laurence E. Skog "Gesneriaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 244. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
2. "Cyrtandra". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 395. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.