Gesneriaceae

A family of some 120 genera and 2500 species of herbs, climbers and shrubs with a few trees, widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical regions.  [FNSW].  Represented in the Hortus by a large number of ornamental plants from several genera.

Plants in this Family

  1. Achimenes erecta (Lam.) H.P.Fuchs
  2. Achimenes erecta (Lam.) H.P.Fuchs var. rosea
  3. Achimenes erecta ‘Elegans’
  4. Achimenes erecta ‘Eximia’
  5. Achimenes erecta ‘Intermedia’
  6. Achimenes erecta ‘Pyropaea’
  7. Achimenes erecta ‘Splendens’
  8. Achimenes erecta ‘Superba’
  9. Achimenes grandiflora DC.
  10. Achimenes grandiflora f. liebmannii (Lem.) Voss
  11. Achimenes hirsuta Lindl.
  12. Achimenes hirsuta ‘Carmesii’
  13. Achimenes longiflora DC.
  14. Achimenes longiflora ‘Major’
  15. Achimenes mexicana Benth. & Hook.
  16. Achimenes patens Benth.
  17. Achimenes pedunculata Benth.
  18. Achimenes skinneri Lindl.
  19. Achimenes skinneri ‘Grandiflora Maxima’
  20. Achimenes x sanguinea (Hort. ex Hanst.) Regel ex Hanst.
  21. Achimenes ‘Baumanni Grandiflora’
  22. Achimenes ‘Chelsonii’
  23. Achimenes ‘Dr. Hopf’
  24. Achimenes ‘Floribunda Elegans’
  25. Achimenes ‘Jayii’
  26. Achimenes ‘Sir Trecherne Thomas’
  27. Achimenes ‘Splendens’
  28. Achimenes ‘Tugwelliana’
  29. Achimenes ‘Venusta’
  30. Aeschynanthus lamponga Miq.
  31. Aeschynanthus longicaulis Wall. ex R.Br.
  32. Aeschynanthus longiflorus (Blume) DC.
  33. Aeschynanthus parasiticus (Roxb.) Wallich.
  34. Aeschynanthus pulchra G.Don
  35. Aeschynanthus pulchra G.Don var. majus
  36. Aeschynanthus ramosissima Wall.
  37. Aeschynanthus volubilis Jack
  38. Chirita sinensis Lindl.
  39. Columnea scandens L.
  40. Columnea schiedeana Schltdl.
  41. Corytholoma splendens (Van Houtte) Fritsch
  42. Dircaea blassii Regel
  43. Gesnera braziliensis unidentified
  44. Gesnera leopoldi Scheidw. ex Planch.
  45. Gesneria x donkelaariana Lemair
  46. Isoloma pictum Planch.
  47. Isoloma tubiflorum Decne.
  48. Koellikeria argyrostigma (Hook.) Regel.
  49. Kohleria bogotensis Fritsch
  50. Nematanthus longipes DC.
  51. Niphaea oblonga Lindl.
  52. Rechsteineria rutila Kuntze
  53. Sinningia bulbosa (Ker-Gawl.) Wiehler
  54. Sinningia hirsuta (Lindl.) Nichols
  55. Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern
  56. Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern var. albiflora
  57. Sinningia speciosa ‘Albo-sanguinea Superba’
  58. Sinningia speciosa ‘Albo-sanguinea’
  59. Sinningia speciosa ‘Baron Reige’
  60. Sinningia speciosa ‘Candida’
  61. Sinningia speciosa ‘Candidissima’
  62. Sinningia speciosa ‘Carminata Splendens’
  63. Sinningia speciosa ‘Carminata’
  64. Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens Discolor’
  65. Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens Major’
  66. Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens’
  67. Sinningia speciosa ‘Erecta Digitalis’
  68. Sinningia speciosa ‘Erecta Magnifica’
  69. Sinningia speciosa ‘Exquisita’
  70. Sinningia speciosa ‘Fischeri’
  71. Sinningia speciosa ‘Formosa’
  72. Sinningia speciosa ‘Fyfiana’
  73. Sinningia speciosa ‘Godefroi de Bouillon’
  74. Sinningia speciosa ‘Grandis’
  75. Sinningia speciosa ‘Labiata’
  76. Sinningia speciosa ‘Leonie van Houtte’
  77. Sinningia speciosa ‘Madam Malibran’
  78. Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Alba’
  79. Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Discolor’
  80. Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Variegata’
  81. Sinningia speciosa ‘Napoleon’
  82. Sinningia speciosa ‘Passinghamii’
  83. Sinningia speciosa ‘Pellicoides’
  84. Sinningia speciosa ‘Pellucida’
  85. Sinningia speciosa ‘Priestleyana’
  86. Sinningia speciosa ‘Rubra-splendens’
  87. Sinningia speciosa ‘Rubra’
  88. Sinningia speciosa ‘Schaeferi’
  89. Sinningia speciosa ‘Variegata’
  90. Sinningia speciosa ‘Wortleyana’
  91. Sinningia tubiflora Fritsch
  92. Sinningia x Cartoni Hort.
  93. Sinningia x insignis Hort.
  94. Smithiantha zebrina (Paxton) Kuntze var. geroltiana (Kunth & Bouche) Voss
  95. Smithiantha zebrina Kuntze
  96. Smithiantha zebrina ‘Splendens’
  97. Streptocarpus rexii Lindl.