Biology:Besleria

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Besleria
Besleria comosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Besleria Plum. ex L.
Type species
Besleria lutea L.
Species
About 200

Besleria is a genus of ca. 200 species of large herbs and soft-stemmed subshrubs or shrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. They occur in Central America, South America, and the West Indies.

The closely related genus Gasteranthus was previously included in Besleria. The two genera have been separated on the basis of stomatal (aggregated in Gasteranthus, scattered in Besleria) and fruit (fleshy capsule in Gasteranthus, berry in Besleria) characters.

Selected species

• Besleria aggregata
• Besleria comosa
• Besleria elegans
• Besleria fasciculata
• Besleria formosa
• Besleria leucostoma
• Besleria lutea L.
• Besleria macahensis
• Besleria melancholica
• Besleria miniata
• Besleria modica
• Besleria notabilis
• Besleria princeps
• Besleria quadrangulata
• Besleria triflora

References

• Wiehler, Hans. "BESLERIA L. AND THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF GASTERANTHUS BENTH. (GESNERIACEAE)." Selbyana 1, no. 2 (1975): 150–56.

External links

• Besleria from The Genera of Gesneriaceae

Wikidata ☰ Q2620278 entry