Kohleria

Kohleria

Taxobox
name = "Kohleria"


image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Gesneriaceae
genus = "Kohleria"
genus_authority = Regel
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Kohleria" is a New World genus of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. The plants are generally tropical herbs or subshrubs with velvety stems and foliage and brightly colored flowers with spots or markings in contrasting colors. They are rhizomatous and commonly include a period of dormancy in their growth cycle. The genus was recently revised by Kvist & Skog (1992) and was recognized as having 19 species distributed in Central America and South America. Recent phylogenetic work by Roalson et al. (2005) indicated that the epiphytic genus "Capanea" is derived from within Kohleria, and the two species of "Capanea" were subsequently transferred to "Kohleria". The genus "Pearcea" is closely related.

Because of their colorful and exotically patterned flowers, as well as a general interest in the many tropical flowering plants that were being introduced for the first time from the Americas, kohlerias were very popular in England and Europe in the 19th Century. Many species and hybrids were lavishly illustrated in horticultural magazines such as Curtis's Botanical Magazine under the discarded or erroneous names of "Achimenes", "Gesneria", "Isoloma", "Sciadocalyx", and "Tydaea". These species and hybrids almost entirely disappeared in the early 20th Century, and plant breeders have only recently begun to work extensively with this genus again.

Several species are widespread, variable, weedy, and tend to hybridize in the wild, and numerous names have been described that are synonyms of other species or are hybrid taxa.

;Selected species and varieties
*"Kohleria affinis" (syn. "Capanea affinis")
*"Kohleria allenii"
*"Kohleria amabilis"
**"Kohleria amabilis" var. "amabilis"
**"Kohleria amabilis" var. "bogotensis" (syn. "K. bogotensis")
*"Kohleria hirsuta"
*"Kohleria inaequalis"
*"Kohleria spicata"
*"Kohleria tigridia" (syn. "Capanea grandiflora")
*"Kohleria villosa"
*"Kohleria warscewiczii"

Cultivation

Their showy flowers and ease of culture have made them popular with growers of indoor houseplants. Numerous species and hybrids are now in cultivation, some with patterned or variegated foliage as well as vivid flowers. They are easily propagated by both stem cuttings and division of the rhizomes.

References and external Links

*Kvist, L.P. & L.E. Skog. 1992. Revision of "Kohleria" (Gesneriaceae). "Smithsonian Contributions to Botany" 79: 1-83.
*Roalson, E.H., J.K. Boggan, L.E., Skog, & E.A. Zimmer. 2005a. Untangling the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae). I. Phylogenetic patterns and generic boundaries inferred from nuclear, chloroplast, and morphological cladistic data sets. "Taxon" 54 (2): 389-410.
*Roalson, E.H., J.K. Boggan & L.E. Skog. 2005. Reorganization of tribal and generic boundaries in the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae: Gesnerioideae) and the description of a new tribe in the Gesnerioideae, Sphaerorrhizeae. "Selbyana" 25 (2): 225-238.
* [http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Botany/pdf/scb-0079h.pdf Revision of "Kohleria" (pdf file) (LINK IS DEAD, please renew it!)]
* [http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/morphology/genera_gesneriaceae/genera/Kohleria.htm "Kohleria"] from [http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/morphology/genera_gesneriaceae/index.htm The Genera of Gesneriaceae]
* [http://gesneriads.ca/genkohle.htm "Kohleria" and "Koellikeria"] from the [http://gesneriads.ca Gesneriad Reference Web]
* [http://www.egradini.ro/articole/kohleria.html "Kohleria" ] from the [http://www.egradini.ro eGradini.ro - Romanian Gardening Website]


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