Meaning | large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales. |
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Synonyms | Gesneriaceae, gesneria family |
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Member of | Polemoniales, order Polemoniales | Polemoniaceae |
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Members | Alsobia, genus Alsobia | Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia |
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Saintpaulia, genus Saintpaulia | east African herb with nodding flowers |
Sinningia, genus Sinningia | genus of perennial tuberous herbs and shrubs of Central and South America |
genus Achimenes | genus of tropical perennial American herbs |
genus Aeschynanthus | large genus of East Indian ornamental woody epiphytic plants |
genus Columnea | genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas |
genus Episcia | genus of tropical American herbs having soft hairy foliage |
genus Gesneria | large genus of tropical American herbs having showy tubular flowers |
genus Gloxinia | small genus of tropical American herbs with leafy stems and axillary flowers |
genus Kohleria | genus of tropical American shrubs |
genus Streptocarpus | large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs |
gesneriad | Any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae |
gloxinia | Any of several plants of the genera ... / genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers |
Broader | asterid dicot family | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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Spanish | gesneriáceas |
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Catalan | Gesneriaceae, gesneriàcia, gesneriàcies |
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