Incarvillea

Taxobox
name = "Incarvillea"


image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Incarvillea emodi"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Bignoniaceae
genus = "Incarvillea"
genus_authority = Juss.
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

"Incarvillea" is a genus of 16 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to central and eastern Asia, with most of the species growing at high altitudes in the Himalaya and Tibet. The most familiar species is "Incarvillea delavayi", a garden plant commonly known as "hardy gloxinia" or "Chinese trumpet flower". Unlike most other members of Bignoniaceae, which are usually trees or lianas, species of "Incarvillea" are stemless perennial herbs with fleshy tuberous roots.

Incarvillea is named after the french jesuit, Pierre Nicholas Le Chéron d'Incarville.

;Selected species
*"Incarvillea altissima"
*"Incarvillea arguta"
*"Incarvillea beresowskii"
*"Incarvillea compacta"
*"Incarvillea delavayi"
*"Incarvillea dissectifoliola"
*"Incarvillea emodi"
*"Incarvillea forrestii"
*"Incarvillea lutea"
*"Incarvillea mairei"
*"Incarvillea olgae"
*"Incarvillea potaninii"
*"Incarvillea sinensis" (syn. "I. variabilis")
*"Incarvillea younghusbandii"
*"Incarvillea zhongdianensis"

External links

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=116396 Flora of China: "Incarvillea"]