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Burmeistera
Sign in to saveBurmeistera is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. There are around 130 species distributed in Central and South America. This genus represents a rapid evolutionary radiation with species having diverged within only the last 2.6 million years.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyCampanulaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,088
- With media
- 453
- Family
- Campanulaceae
- Collections
- GH, IBUNAM, USF, MO
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lobelioideae
- Image
- Burmeistera minutiflora.jpg
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Burmeistera is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. There are around 130 species distributed in Central and South America. This genus represents a rapid evolutionary radiation with species having diverged within only the last 2.6 million years.
These are herbs, shrubs, or lianas. Most have either green or yellow flowers with purple markings and inflated fruit pods.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burmeistera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.