''Sinningia bullata'' is a
tuber
Tubers are a type of enlarged structure used as storage organs for nutrients in some plants. They are used for the plant's perennation (survival of the winter or dry months), to provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growin ...
ous member of the
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a 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 Gesnerioideae), wit ...
. It produces small orange-red flowers and is found in
Brazil
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.
It is named for its
bullate
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leaves, and also produces a
woolly
Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool.
As an ...
backing to its leaves.
References
Further reading
*Pereira-Dias, Francis, and Marisa Santos. "Adaptive strategies against water stress: a study comparing leaf morphoanatomy of rupicolous and epiphytic species of Gesneriaceae." Brazilian Journal of Botany 38.4 (2015): 911–919.
*Ferreira, Gabriel Emiliano, Alain Chautems, and Jorge Luiz Waechter. "A new unexpected record of Sinningia bullata Chautems & M. Peixoto (Gesneriaceae) in Southern Brazil." Rodriguésia 65.4 (2014): 1037–1042.
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bullata
''Bullata'' is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.
Distribution
This is a tropical western Atlantic genus.
Habitat
Representatives from this genus have been recorded ...
Flora of Brazil
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