''Pheidonocarpa'' 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 belonging to 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 a single species, ''Pheidonocarpa corymbosa'', a lithophytic

subshrub A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or undershrub is either a small shrub (e.g. prostrate shrubs) or a perennial that is largely herbaceous but slightly woody at the base (e.g. garden pink and florist's chrysanthemum). The term is often interch ...

native to

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

and

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

Subspecies

Two subspecies are accepted: *''Pheidonocarpa corymbosa'' subsp. ''corymbosa'' – Jamaica *''Pheidonocarpa corymbosa'' subsp. ''cubensis'' (synonyms ''Gesneria mortonii'' , ''Heppiella cubensis'' , and ''Pheidonocarpa cubensis'' ) – eastern Cuba

References

{{Authority control Gesnerioideae Monotypic Gesneriaceae genera Flora of Cuba Flora of Jamaica Plants described in 1788