Common Names
Common Names in English:
Creeping Gloxinia, Creeping-Gloxinia, Mexican Twist
Description
Family Scrophulariaceae
Herbs, sometimes shrubs
, rarely trees
; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled
, or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple
or sometimes pinnately dissected
. Inflorescences racemes
, spikes, or thyrsoid
panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect
, usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic
. Calyx often persistent
, (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate
. Corolla sympetalous
; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous
, sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther
locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal
, free
or confluent
. Nectary
often present at base
of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland
. Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous
, rarely 2 per locule, on axile
placentas, anatropous
or hemitropous
. Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal
, loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores
or irregularly dehiscent
, rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous
, sometimes winged
; testa often reticulate
; hilum
lateral
or ventral; endosperm fleshy
or absent; embryo straight or curved
.
About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan
; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Vine , Subshrub
Flowers: Bloom Period: June, July, August, September. • Flower Color: mauve , pink, rose
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 8-10' tall.
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Growth
Culture: Space 18-24" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Scrophulariales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Scrophulariaceae
()
- Durande, 1782, Nom. Cons.
- Figwort Family
- Tribe:
Antirrhineae
()
- Genus:
Lophospermum
()
- Specific epithet:
erubescens
- D. Don
- Botanical name: - Lophospermum erubescens
- Specific epithet:
erubescens
- D. Don
- Genus:
Lophospermum
(
- Tribe:
Antirrhineae
(
- Family:
Scrophulariaceae
(
- Order:
Scrophulariales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Asarina erubescens (D. Don) Pennell
- Maurandya Erubescens
- Maurandya erubescens (D. Don) A. Gray
- Maurandya Scandens Erubescens
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
. Latest taxonomic
scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Place of publication
: R. Sweet, Brit
. fl.
gard. 4(= ser. 2, 1): t. 68, nota ad t. 75. 1830
Name verified on 05-Feb-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-May-2002
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lophospermum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. atrosanguineum · L. breedlovei · L. chiapense · L. erectum · L. erubescens (Creeping Gloxinia) · L. erubescens 'Bridal Bouquet' (Creeping Gloxinia) · L. erubescens 'Garnet' · L. erubescens 'Great Cascade Wine Red' · L. erubescens white · L. hintonii · L. 'Magic Dragon' · L. nubicola · L. physalodes · L. purpurascens · L. purpusii · L. purpusii 'Victoria Falls' · L. 'Red Dragon' · L. rhodochiton · L. scandens · L. scandens Jewel Series · L. scandens 'Pink Ice' · L. spectabile · L. turneri
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Further Reading
- Beitrge zur wissenschaftlichen Botanik. Stuttgart, E. Ngele. GER url p. 258, p. 286, p. 287.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 137.
- Comprehensive index to the Flora of Guatemala / Terua P. Williams. [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1977. ENG url p. 144.
- Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. url p. 170.
- Elisens, W. J. 1985. Monograph of the Maurandyinae (Scrophulariaceae-Antirrhineae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 5:74–76.
- Flora costaricensis / William Burger, editor. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2000. ENG url p. 13, p. 172, p. 2, p. 49, p. 50.
- Flora of Bermuda by Nathaniel Lord Britton New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1918. ENG url p. 347, p. 575.
- Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. ENG url p. 377.
- Flora of Peru. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1971. ENG url p. 691.
- Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung. Hamburg: R. Kittler, 1852-1890. GER url p. 530.
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) [= Asarina "lophospermum"].
- Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology London. url p. 630, p. 684.
- Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1848-[1958] ENG url p. 377.
- Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands / New York Academy of Sciences. New York, N.Y.: The Academy, 1919- url p. 189, p. 627.
- The florist, fruitist, and garden miscellany. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852- ENG url p. 206.
- Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 25, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 15 providers.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 29, 2008)
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de EcologÃa, A.C., México
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2667934
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-503552
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13760168
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:805288-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 22668
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 503552
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDSCR2F010
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LOER3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 47929
Footnotes
- Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
