''Burmeistera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family,
Campanulaceae
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants bel ...
. There are around 130 species distributed in Central and South America.
[Muchhala, N., & Potts, M. D. (2007)]
Character displacement among bat-pollinated flowers of the genus ''Burmeistera'': analysis of mechanism, process and pattern.
''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences'', 274(1626), 2731-2737. This genus represents a rapid
evolutionary radiation
An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with an increase in morphological disparity. A significantly large and diverse radiation within ...
with species having diverged within only the last 2.6 million years.
These are herbs, shrubs, or lianas. Most have either green or yellow flowers with purple markings and inflated fruit pods.
[Muchhala, N., & Lammers, T. G. (2005)]
A new species of ''Burmeistera'' (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) from Ecuador.
''Novon'', 15, 176-179.
The flowers of these plants are pollinated by bats, except for ''
Burmeistera rubrosepala'', which is pollinated by hummingbirds. Bats such as ''
Anoura geoffroyi'' and ''
Anoura caudifer'' visit the flowers for the nectar.
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Species include:
* '' Burmeistera anderssonii''
* '' Burmeistera asplundii''
* '' Burmeistera auriculata''][
* '' Burmeistera brachyandra''
* '' Burmeistera crispiloba''
* '' Burmeistera cuyujensis''
* '' Burmeistera cyclostigma''
* '' Burmeistera cylindrocarpa''
* '' Burmeistera domingensis''
* '' Burmeistera formosa''
* '' Burmeistera holm-nielsenii''
* '' Burmeistera huacamayensis''
* '' Burmeistera ignimontis''
* '' Burmeistera loejtnantii''
* '' Burmeistera microphylla''
* '' Burmeistera oblongifolia''
* '' Burmeistera oyacachensis''
* '' Burmeistera parviflora''
* '' Burmeistera racemiflora''
* '' Burmeistera refracta''
* '' Burmeistera resupinata''
* '' Burmeistera rubrosepala''
* '' Burmeistera sodiroana''
* '' Burmeistera tenuiflora''
* '' Burmeistera truncata''
]
References
Campanulaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
Taxa named by José Jerónimo Triana
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