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Genus of flowering plants

Besleria
Besleria comosa
Scientific classification Edit this 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

176; see text

Synonyms
  • Eriphia P.Browne (1756)
  • Cyrtanthemum Oerst. (1861)
  • Gasteranthopsis Oerst.(1861)
  • Parabesleria Oerst. (1858)
  • Pseudobesleria Oerst. (1858)
  • Pterobesleria C.V.Morton (1953)

Besleria is a genus of large herbs and soft-stemmed subshrubs or shrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. It includes 176 species native to tropical southern Mexico, 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.

Species

176 species are accepted.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Besleria Plum. ex L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  2. Wiehler (1975)

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Taxon identifiers
Besleria
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