Pearcea

Taxobox
name = "Pearcea"


image_caption = "Pearcea intermedia"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Gesneriaceae
genus = "Pearcea"
genus_authority = Regel
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Pearcea" is a South American genus of 17 species of tropical herbs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. It is classified in tribe Gloxinieae and is closely related to the genus "Kohleria", in which some of its species were previously included. The genus "Parakohleria" has recently been synonymized under "Pearcea", a conclusion later supported by molecular analyses that showed that "Pearcea hypocyrtiflora" was nested within the former Parakohlerias.

The best-known and most widely cultivated species is "Pearcea hypocyrtiflora", a low-growing herb with attractively marked leaves and unusual bubble-like red or orange flowers.

elected species

*"Pearcea abunda" (syn. "Parakohleria abunda")
*"Pearcea hypocyrtiflora"
*"Pearcea intermedia"
*"Pearcea rhodotricha" (syn. "Parakohleria rhodotricha")
*"Pearcea sprucei" (syn. "Parakohleria sprucei")

References

*Roalson, E.H., J.K. Boggan, L.E. Skog, & E.A. Zimmer. 2005. Untangling the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae). I. Phylogenetic patterns and generic boundaries inferred from nuclear, chloroplast, and morphological cladistic data sets. "Taxon" 54 (2): 389-410.
*Wiehler, H. 1978. "Parakohleria", a new South American genus in the Gesneriaceae. "Selbyana" 5(1): 4-10.

External links

* [http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Botany/pdf/scb-0084h.pdf Kvist, L.P. & L.E. Skog. 1996. Revision of "Pearcea" (Gesneriaceae). "Smithsonian Contrib. Bot". 84: 1-47 (pdf file).]