A study of the tribe Gesnerieae, with a revision of Gesneria (Gesneriaceae, Gesnerioideae)

Related Titles

Related/Analytical: Gesnerieae, with a revision of Gesneria (Gesneriaceae, Gesnerioideae)

Series: Smithsonian contributions to botany, no. 29

By

Skog, Laurence E.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976

Notes

Includes index.

A study is made of the tribe Gesnerieae of the family Gesneriaceae from the West Indies, giving information on history, anatomy and morphology, pollination and dispersal, and hybridization in the tribe. The tribe comprises 67 species in 3 genera: Rhytidophyllum, Gesneria, and Pheidonocarpa. The last genus is described as new, with a new species combination, Pheidonocarpa corymbosa (Swartz) L. Skog, and 2 subspecies. A revision of Gesneria Linnaeus is presented based on field and herbarium studies. Gesneria is divided into 9 sections, 46 species (a new species, Gesneria onychocalyx L. Skog, is described), 12 subspecies, and 11 varieties. The taxonomic portion includes keys, synonymies, descriptions, typifications, distributions, and ecology, as well as distribution maps and illustrations of the taxa. Also enumerated in Appendix 1 are many species names once included in Gesnera or Gesneria, but which have been transferred to other genera. Two new combinations are made in this portion of the text: Rhytidophyllum cumanense (Hanstein) L. Skog and Rhytidophyllum onacaense (Rusby) L. Skog.

Subjects

Botany , Gesneria , Pheidonocarpa , Rhytidophyllum , West Indies

Call Number

QK1 .S2747 no. 29

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.122541
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/75619134
OCLC: 1365799
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51399068