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Columnea
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Columnea is a genus of around 200 species of epiphytic herbs and shrubs in the family Gesneriaceae, native to the tropics of the Americas and the Caribbean. The tubular or oddly shaped flowers are usually large and brightly colored – usually red, yellow, or orange – sometimes resembling a fish in shape. A common name is flying goldfish plants (see also the related Nematanthus) due to the unusual flower shape.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderLamiales
  5. FamilyGesneriaceae
Native toBelize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana
Observations recorded39,905

Trichantha é um género botânico pertencente à família Gesneriaceae[1]. Espécies Este gênero é composto por 59 espécies: Trichantha acuminata Trichantha aliena Trichantha ambigua Trichantha angustifolia Trichantha anisophylla Trichantha anisophyllum Trichantha brenneri Trichantha bullata Trichantha calotricha Trichantha cerropirrana Trichantha ciliata Trichantha citrina Trichantha clara Trichantha cristata Trichantha dictyophylla Trichantha dielsii Trichantha dissimilis Trichantha dodsonii Trichantha domingensis Trichantha elegans Trichantha erythrophylla Trichantha ferruginea Trichantha filifera Trichantha filipes Trichantha fimbricalyx Trichantha formosa Trichantha gracilis Trichantha herthae Trichantha heterophylla Trichantha illepida Trichantha incarnata Trichantha laevis Trichantha lehmannii Trichantha major Trichantha minor Trichantha minutiflora Trichantha mira Trichantha moorei Trichantha oblongifolia Trichantha ochroleuca Trichantha parviflora Trichantha pendula Trichantha peruviana Trichantha poortmanii Trichantha poortmannii Trichantha pubescens Trichantha pulchra Trichantha purpureovittata Trichantha rosea Trichantha rubricalyx Trichantha sanguinolenta Trichantha segrega

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,278
With media
413
Family
Gesneriaceae
Collections
CICY, IGL-UNAM, IBUNAM, UJAT, MO, NY
Recorded in
Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Ecuador, Colombia, Jamaica, Peru

Wikidata facts

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Commons category
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taxon name
Columnea
taxon rank
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topic's main category
Category:Columnea
Commons gallery
Columnea
taxon common name
金鱼花属
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Cultivation
  • Species
  • References
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Columnea is a genus of around 200 species of epiphytic herbs and shrubs in the family Gesneriaceae, native to the tropics of the Americas and the Caribbean. The tubular or oddly shaped flowers are usually large and brightly colored – usually red, yellow, or orange – sometimes resembling a fish in shape. A common name is flying goldfish plants (see also the related Nematanthus) due to the unusual flower shape.

The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus after the Latinized spelling of the name of the 16th-century Italian botanist Fabio Colonna (Latin: Fabius Columnus).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Columnea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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