''Phinaea'' 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 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 contains three species
native to the Americas, including western and central Mexico, Cuba and Haiti, and Colombia and northern Brazil.
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Species
Three species are accepted.[
* '']Phinaea albolineata
''Phinaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in family Gesneriaceae. It contains three species
native to the Americas, including western and central Mexico, Cuba and Haiti, and Colombia and northern Brazil.
Species
Three species are accepted.
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'' – northeastern Colombia and northern Brazil (Pará)
* '' Phinaea multiflora'' – western and central Mexico
* '' Phinaea pulchella'' – western Cuba and Haiti
** ''Phinaea pulchella'' var. ''domingensis'' – Haiti (Massif de la Hotte
The Massif de la Hotte () is a mountain range in southwestern Haiti, on the Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti, Tiburon Peninsula west of the Petit-Goâve-Jacmel fault. About 2.5 million years ago, Massif de la Hotte was separated from the Massif de la Sel ...
)
** ''Phinaea pulchella'' var. ''pulchella'' – western Cuba
Formerly placed here
*'' Amalophyllon divaricatum'' (as ''Phinaea divaricata'' )
*'' Amalophyllon ecuadoranum'' (as '' Phinaea ecuadorana'' )
References
External links
World Checklist of Gesneriaceae
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The Genera of Gesneriaceae
Gesnerioideae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Gesneriaceae genera
Flora of the Americas
Taxa described in 1876
Taxa named by George Bentham
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