Saintpaulia

genus of plants

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Saintpaulia is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae, commonly known as the African violet. It belongs to the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Lamiales. The genus produces fruit in the form of a capsule.

Records for Saintpaulia have been documented in Tanzania, the United States, El Salvador, and Brasil. Specimens are held by institutions including MO, USF, UCR, UEL, and UPS. These records include 44 entries and 22 media files. A total of 149 occurrences have been logged for this taxon.

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Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderLamiales
FamilyGesneriaceae

Observations recorded149

Teile dieses Artikels scheinen seit Nishii et al. 2015 nicht mehr aktuell zu sein.Bitte hilf mit, die fehlenden Informationen zu recherchieren und einzufügen. Die Saintpaulia ist eine der kleineren Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Gesneriengewächse (Gesneriaceae). Die etwa elf Arten sind in tropischen Regenwäldern der ostafrikanischen Länder Tansania und Kenia beheimatet. Zahlreiche Zuchtformen, bekannt als Usambaraveilchen, sind als Zimmerpflanzen beliebt. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Beschreibung 1.1 Vegetative Merkmale 1.2 Generative Merkmale 2 Vorkommen 3 Systematik 4 Nutzung 5 Quellen 5.1 Einzelnachweise 6 Weblinks Beschreibung Behaarte Unterseite einer Blüte des Usambaraveilchens (Saintpaulia-ionantha-Hybride) mit den fünf fast freien Kelchblättern. Leicht zygomorphe Blüte des Usambaraveilchens (Saintpaulia-ionantha-Hybride) mit dem zur Seite gerichteten Griffel. Pollen von Saintpaulia spec. Vegetative Merkmale Bei Saintpaulia-Arten und ihren Sorten handelt sich um ausdauernde krautige Pflanzen von rosettigem (beispielsweise Saintpaulia ionantha, Saintpaulia rupicola) oder kriechendem (beispielsweise Saintpaulia inconspicua, Saintpaulia goetzeana, Saintpaulia ionantha subsp. grotei

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 44
With media: 22
Family: Gesneriaceae
Collections: MO, USF, UCR, UEL, UPS, JBB
Recorded in: Tanzania, United States, El Salvador, Brasil

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Encyclopedic overview

Streptocarpus ionanthus flowers Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia is a section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella consisting of about ten species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa. The section was previously treated as a separate genus, Saintpaulia, but molecular phylogenetic studies showed that it was nested within the genus Streptocarpus.

Species and cultivars are commonly called African violets (although they are not closely related to true violets) or saintpaulias. They are commonly sold as house plants.

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