Biology:Streptocarpus ulugurensis

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Short description: Plant species of family Gesneriaceae

Streptocarpus ulugurensis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Genus: [[Biology:|Streptocarpus]]
Section: S. sect. Saintpaulia
Species:
S. ulugurensis
Binomial name
Streptocarpus ulugurensis
(Haston) Haston[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Saintpaulia ulugurensis Haston

Streptocarpus ulugurensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial endemic to the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania.[2]

Streptocarpus ulugurensis is known from a single location of only five square meters on the eastern slope of the northern Uluguru Mountains. It grows on a steep mossy bank with ferns and mosses between rocks and tree roots, in the deep shade of submontane forest at 750 metres elevation.[1]

It was first described in 2009 as Saintpaulia ulugurensis.[3] The former genus Saintpaulia was reduced to Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia in 2015, and the species moved to Streptocarpus.[4]

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