''Chrysothemis'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s in the family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Ges ...
. It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico and Cuba through Central America and northern South America to central Brazil.
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Species
Nine species are accepted.[
* '' Chrysothemis adenosiphon''
* '' Chrysothemis colonensis''
* '' Chrysothemis dichroa'' Leeuwenb.
* '' Chrysothemis friedrichsthaliana'' (Hanst.) H.E.Moore
* '' Chrysothemis kuhlmannii'' Hoehne
* '' Chrysothemis melittifolia'' (L.) M.M.Mora & J.L.Clark
* '' Chrysothemis panamensis''
* '' Chrysothemis pulchella'' (Donn ex Sims) Decne.
* '' Chrysothemis rupestris'' (Benth.) Leeuwenb.
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References
Gesnerioideae
Gesneriaceae genera
Flora of the Neotropical realm
Taxa described in 1849
Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne
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