''Metapetrocosmea'' 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 ten species native to southern China, Hainan, and Vietnam. A 2022 phylogenetic and morphological study by Peng-Wei Li ''et al.'' concluded that genus ''Deinostigma'' should be included in ''Metapetrocosmea''.Li, Peng-Wei & Fangpu, Liu & Han, Mengqi & Smith, James & Wang, Yin-Zheng. (2022). Molecular and Morphological Evidence Supports the Inclusion of ''Deinostigma'' into ''Metapetrocosmea'' (Gesneriaceae). ''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden''. 10.3417/2022767. In 2016 ''Deinostigma'' had been expanded with the transfer of several species that had previously been place in the genus ''

Primulina ''Primulina'' is a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae. It includes 232 species native to southern and north-central China and northern Vietnam. The species are mostly calciphilous, and typically grow in the exten ...

''.

Species

Ten species are accepted. *''

Metapetrocosmea alba ''Metapetrocosmea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It includes ten species native to southern China, Hainan, and Vietnam. A 2022 phylogenetic and morphological study by Peng-Wei Li ''et al.'' concluded that ...

'' *'' Metapetrocosmea cicatricosa'' *'' Metapetrocosmea cycnostyla'' *'' Metapetrocosmea cyrtocarpa'' *'' Metapetrocosmea eberhardtii'' *'' Metapetrocosmea fasciculata'' *'' Metapetrocosmea minutihamata'' *'' Metapetrocosmea peltata'' *'' Metapetrocosmea poilanei'' *'' Metapetrocosmea tamiana''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15935113 Didymocarpoideae Gesneriaceae genera Taxa described in 1981