Biology:Moussonia (plant)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Gesneriaceae |
| Genus: | Moussonia Regel |
Moussonia is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. Its native range stretches from Mexico to Central America. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.[1]
Description
They are herbaceous plants, or shrubs. It has an erect, branched stem, without scaly rhizomes. The leaves are arranged in the opposite way. The inflorescences are axillary, in cymes or solitary flowers. The corolla is red, orange or yellow, in the form of a long tube, which is broader in the centre. With the base of the extremities and narrow throat. The fruit (or seed capsule) is a dry, ovoid or ellipsoidal bivalve capsule.[2]
Taxonomy
It was previously included in the genus Kohleria, but with a different chromosomal number 2n=11, the ring-shaped nectary and without rhizomes. The molecular results support the separation of this genus.[3]
The genus name of Moussonia is in honour of Albert Mousson (1805–1890), a physicist and a malacologist from Switzerland..[4] It was first described and published in Flora Vol.31 on page 248 in 1848.[1]
Species
Plants of the World Online (Kew) accepts 22 species;[1]
- Moussonia pendula D.L.Denham ex Ram.-Roa
- (C.V.Morton) Wiehler Moussonia ampla
- L.E.Skog Moussonia collina
- (Brandegee) Ram.-Roa Moussonia costaricensis
- Klotzsch ex Oerst. (Schltdl. & Cham.) Klotzsch ex Hanst.
- Decne. (Brandegee) Wiehler
- (C.V.Morton) Wiehler Ram.-Roa
- Oerst. ex Hanst. (C.V.Morton) Ram.-Roa
- (C.V.Morton) Wiehler Ram.-Roa
- Moussonia skutchii Moussonia tenuiflora
- Moussonia jaliscana Moussonia orientalis
- Moussonia pedunculata Moussonia rupicola
- (C.V.Morton & D.N.Gibson) Wiehler Ram.-Roa
- Moussonia deppeana Moussonia elegans
- Moussonia fruticosa Moussonia hirsutissima
- (S.Watson) D.L.Denham ex Ram.-Roa Ram.-Roa
- (Brandegee) Ram.-Roa (Standl. & L.O.Williams) Wiehler
- (C.V.Morton) Ram.-Roa (Brandegee) Wiehler
- Moussonia viminalis Moussonia strigosa
- Moussonia tacanaensis Moussonia solitaria
- Moussonia adpressipilosa Moussonia larryskogii
- Moussonia papillosa Moussonia serrulata
Moussonia elegans Decne. is the type species.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Moussonia Regel | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17124-1.
- ↑ Joachim W. Kadereit (Editor) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including ... (2012) , p. 117, at Google Books
- ↑ Wiehler, Hans (January 1975). "The Re-Establishment of Moussonia Regel (Gesneriaceae)". Selbyana 1 (1): 22–31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41759579.
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ Joseph Paxton and John Lindley [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bz1rXOmsHN0C&pg=PA127 Paxton's Flower Garden Vol.1 (1850)], p. 127, at Google Books
Other sources
- Roalson, E. H., J. K. Boggan & L. E. Skog 2005. Reorganization of tribal and generic boundaries in the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae: Gesnerioideae) and the description of a new tribe in the Gesnerioideae, Sphaerorrhizeae. Selbyana 25(2): 225–238.
- Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa U., A. Pool & O. M. Montiel 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: i–xlii, 1–2666
Wikidata ☰ Q4308504 entry
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