Pearcea

Genus of flowering plants

Pearcea

Pearcea intermedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Gesneriaceae
Genus:  | Pearcea
Regel (1867)
Species[1]

19; see text

Synonyms[1]

Parakohleria Wiehler (1978)

Pearcea is a genus of tropical herbaceous plants in the family Gesneriaceae native to western South America. It is classified in tribe Gloxinieae and is closely related to the genus Kohleria, in which some of its species were previously included. The genus Parakohleria has recently been synonymized under Pearcea, a conclusion later supported by molecular analyses that showed that Pearcea hypocyrtiflora was nested within the former Parakohlerias.

The best-known and most widely cultivated species is Pearcea hypocyrtiflora, a low-growing herb with attractively marked leaves and unusual bubble-like red or orange flowers.

## Species

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19 species are accepted.[1]

* Pearcea abunda (Wiehler) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea bella L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea bilabiata L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea cordata L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea fuscicalyx L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea glabrata L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea gracilis L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea grandifolia L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea hispidissima (Wiehler) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea hypocyrtiflora (Hook.f.) Regel
* Pearcea intermedia L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea lutea J.L.Clark & H.Garzón
* Pearcea pileifolia J.L.Clark & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea purpurea (Poepp.) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea reticulata (Fritsch) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea rhodotricha (Cuatrec.) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea schimpfii Mansf.
* Pearcea sprucei (Britton) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
* Pearcea strigosa L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog

## References

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1. ^ a b c Pearcea Regel. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 August 2024.

* Roalson, E.H., J.K. Boggan, L.E. Skog, & E.A. Zimmer. 2005. Untangling the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae). I. Phylogenetic patterns and generic boundaries inferred from nuclear, chloroplast, and morphological cladistic data sets. Taxon 54 (2): 389–410.
* Wiehler, H. 1978. Parakohleria, a new South American genus in the Gesneriaceae. Selbyana 5(1): 4–10.

## External links

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* Kvist, L.P. & L.E. Skog. 1996. Revision of Pearcea (Gesneriaceae). Smithsonian Contrib. Bot. 84: 1-47 (pdf file).

Taxon identifiers

Pearcea|

* Wikidata: Q2356310
* Wikispecies: Pearcea
* CoL: 6JTS
* EoL: 5649298
* GBIF: 6365409
* GRIN: 8960
* iNaturalist: 185123
* IPNI: 30039530-2
* IRMNG: 1007278
* ITIS: 825811
* NCBI: 71134
* Open Tree of Life: 40977
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30039530-2
* Tropicos: 40002674
* WFO: wfo-4000028377

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