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- Gesneriaceae abstract "Gesneriaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of ca. 150 genera and ca. 3,200 species in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.Most species are perennial herbs or subshrubs but a few are woody shrubs or small trees. The phyllotaxy is usually opposite and decussate, but leaves have a spiral or alternate arrangement in some groups. As with other members of the Lamiales the flowers have a (usually) zygomorphic corolla whose petals are fused into a tube and there is no one character that separates a gesneriad from any other member of Lamiales. Gesneriads differ from related families of the Lamiales in having an unusual inflorescence structure, the \"pair-flowered cyme\", but some gesneriads lack this characteristic, and some other Lamiales (Calceolariaceae and some Scrophulariaceae) share it. The ovary can be superior, half-inferior or fully inferior, and the fruit a dry or fleshy capsule or a berry. The seeds are always small and numerous. Gesneriaceae have traditionally been separated from Scrophulariaceae by having a unilocular rather than bilocular ovary, with parietal rather than axile placentation.On the basis of both morphological and biogeographical differences the family is divided into two major subfamilies: subfamily Cyrtandroideae in the Old World and subfamily Gesnerioideae in the New World. The biggest and most widespread genus is Cyrtandra, with about 600 species widely distributed in Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the islands of the Pacific as far away as the Hawaiian Islands.Several molecular systematic studies have shown that Gesneriaceae are not closely related to any other family of the Lamiales, but more recently a sister-group relationship with Calceolariaceae has been suggested. Other studies have suggested that two genera generally placed in other families, Sanango and Peltanthera, are more closely related to Gesneriaceae than to any other members of the Lamiales but there is as yet no consensus on whether those genera should be included in the family.The genus Rehmannia has sometimes been included in Gesneriaceae but is now referred to the family Scrophulariaceae. Several genera in the family have become popular as houseplants. The most familiar members of the family to gardeners are the African Violets in the genus Saintpaulia. Gesneriads are divided culturally into three groups on the basis of whether, and how, their stems are modified into storage organs: rhizomatous, tuberous, and \"fibrous-rooted\", meaning those that lack such storage structures (although all gesneriads have fibrous roots).Botanists who have made significant contributions to the systematics of the family are George Bentham, Robert Brown, B.L. Burtt, C.B. Clarke, Olive Mary Hilliard, Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Jackson Hooker, Karl Fritsch, Elmer Drew Merrill, Harold E. Moore, Jr., John L. Clark, Conrad Vernon Morton, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Laurence Skog, W.T. Wang, Anton Weber, and Hans Wiehler. Several researchers are currently working on this group and the generic classification has been changing rapidly.The family name is based on the genus Gesneria, which honors Swiss humanist Conrad Gessner.The Gesneriad Society, Inc. is an international horticultural society devoted to the promotion, cultivation, and study of Gesneriaceae.".
- Gesneriaceae class Eudicots.
- Gesneriaceae division Flowering_plant.
- Gesneriaceae kingdom Plant.
- Gesneriaceae order Asterids.
- Gesneriaceae order Lamiales.
- Gesneriaceae thumbnail PikiWiki_Israel_32204_Saintpaulia_Ionantha.jpg?width=300.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink china.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink gesneriads.ca.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink GESNERIACEAE.published.pdf.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink bibliography.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink checklist.
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- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink www.genera-gesneriaceae.at.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink www.gesneriaceae.eu.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink Gesneriaceae_Article_Weber.htm.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageExternalLink www.gesneriadsociety.org.
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- Gesneriaceae wikiPageLength "8920".
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- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Achimenes.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Aeschynanthus.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Agalmyla.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Alloplectus.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Alsobia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Amalophyllon.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Ancylostemon.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Anna_(plant).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Antoine_Laurent_de_Jussieu.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Anton_Weber.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Asteranthera.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Asterids.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Augustin_Pyramus_de_Candolle.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink B.L._Burtt.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Berry_(botany).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Besleria.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Boea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Briggsia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Bucinellina.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Calceolariaceae.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Capanea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Gesneriaceae.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lamiales_families.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Baron_Clarke.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Chirita.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Chiritopsis.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Chrysothemis_(plant).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Codonanthe.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Codonoboea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Columnea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Conandron.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Conrad_Gessner.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Conrad_Vernon_Morton.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Corallodiscus.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Corytoplectus.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Crantzia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Cyrtandra_(plant).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Decussation.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Diastema_(plant).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Didissandra.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Didymocarpus.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Drymonia_(plant).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Elmer_Drew_Merrill.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Episcia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Eucodonia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Eudicots.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Floral_symmetry.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Flowering_plant.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Gasteranthus.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink George_Bentham.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Gesneria.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Gesneriad_Society.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Glossoloma.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Gloxinella.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Gloxinia_(genus).
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Gloxiniopsis.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Haberlea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Hans_Wiehler.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Harold_E._Moore,_Jr..
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Hawaiian_Islands.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Hemiboea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Henckelia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Nicholas_Ridley.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Herb.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Humanism.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Indonesia.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Isometrum.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Jancaea.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink John_L._Clark.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Dalton_Hooker.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Karl_Fritsch.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Kohleria.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Lamiales.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Laurence_Skog.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Louis_Claude_Richard.
- Gesneriaceae wikiPageWikiLink Loxocarpus.