''Kohleria amabilis'', the tree gloxinia, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of the

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 ...

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 ...

''.

Varieties

*''Kohleria amabilis'' var. ''amabilis'' *''Kohleria amabilis'' var. ''bogotensis'' (syn. ''K. bogotensis'') (G. Nicholson) L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog

Description

''Kohleria amabilis'' can reach a height of . Leaves have a silvery pattern and are egg-shaped, velvety, long. The brightly colored flowers are about long, tubular, slightly nodding, usually pink on the outside with red or purple dots inside. ''Kohleria amabilis'' var. ''bogotensis'' has dark green leaves and yellow and red-orange flowers. Flowering period extends from late winter through the spring and summer. These tropical plants are rhizomatous and have a period of seasonal leafless dormancy.

Distribution

This species is native to

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

(

Mesoamerica Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El S ...

) and

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

.Inaturalist
/ref>

References

* Kvist, L.P. & L.E. Skog. 1992

Revision of ''Kohleria'' (Gesneriaceae). ''Smithsonian Contributions to Botany'' 79: 1-83. * H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3b):178. 1894

External links

''Kohleria bogotensis''PlantillustrationsEncyclopedia of Life
Gesnerioideae Taxa named by Karl Fritsch Taxa named by Jean Jules Linden Taxa named by Jules Émile Planchon {{Gesneriaceae-stub