Pearcea

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Pearcea

Pearcea intermedia

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Pearcea Regel

Species

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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.

[edit] Selected species

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

[edit] 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.