Vanhouttea · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Vanhouttea
Sign in to saveVanhouttea is a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae, native to south-eastern Brazil. They are pollinated by hummingbirds.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyGesneriaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 37
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
- Collections
- JBRJ, MN, UEFS, INMA, ESALQ, UFMG
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Brazil
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Vanhouttea is a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae, native to south-eastern Brazil. They are pollinated by hummingbirds.
==Species== Ten species are currently accepted. Vanhouttea bradeana Hoehne Vanhouttea brueggeri Chautems Vanhouttea calcarata Lem. Vanhouttea fruticulosa (Glaz. ex Hoehne) Chautems Vanhouttea gardneri (Hook.) Fritsch Vanhouttea hilariana Chautems Vanhouttea lanata Fritsch Vanhouttea leonii Chautems Vanhouttea mollis Fritsch Vanhouttea pendula Chautems
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vanhouttea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.