Calceolaria
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- For another genus Calceolaria Heist. ex Fabr., see its current accepted name Cypripedium.
| Calceolaria | |
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| Calceolaria bilatata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Calceolariaceae |
| Genus: | Calceolaria L. |
Calceolaria L. (
/ˌkælsiː.ɵˈlɛəriə/),[1] also called Lady's purse, Slipper flower and Pocketbook flower,[2] or Slipperwort, is a genus of plants in the Calceolariaceae family, sometimes classified in Scrophulariaceae by some authors. This genus consists of about 388 species of shrubs, lianas and herbs, and the geographic range extends from Patagonia to central Mexico, with its distribution centre in Andean region. Calceolaria in Latin means shoemaker.
Calceolarias have usually yellow or orange flowers, which can have red or purple spots.[2]
[edit] Species
The species of Calceolaria include:
- Calceolaria adenanthera
- Calceolaria alba
- Calceolaria amplexicaulis
- Calceolaria australis
- Calceolaria bentae
- Calceolaria brachiata
- Calceolaria commutata
- Calceolaria dilatata
- Calceolaria frondosa
- Calceolaria gossypina
- Calceolaria grandiflora
- Calceolaria harlingii
- Calceolaria helianthemoides
- Calceolaria herbeohybrida group
- Calceolaria hyssopifolia
- Calceolaria integrifolia
- Calceolaria lanata
- Calceolaria lavandulifolia
- Calceolaria martinezii
- Calceolaria obtusa
- Calceolaria odontophylla
- Calceolaria oxyphylla
- Calceolaria pedunculata
- Calceolaria platyzyga
- Calceolaria rosmarinifolia
- Calceolaria semiconnata
- Calceolaria sericea
- Calceolaria serrata
- Calceolaria spruceana
- Calceolaria stricta
- Calceolaria tomentosa
- Calceolaria uniflora
- Calceolaria zamorana
[edit] References
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
- ^ a b "Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", pp. 166-167 Könemann, 2004. ISBN 3-8331-1253-0
- Andersson, Stephan 2006. On the phylogeny of the genus Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) as inferred from ITS and plastid matK sequences. Taxon 55(1):125-137.
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