Kohleria

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

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Kohleria is a New World genus of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae^wp.

Read about Kohleria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

syn. Sciadocalyx: Isoloma. The following species was not treated under Isoloma, see Vol. III, p. 1705. Isoloma Warszewiczii, Hort. (Sciadocalyx Warszewiczii, Regel. Kohleria Warszewiczii, Hanst.). Perennial herb, 3-4 ft. high, with catkin-like stolons: st., petioles, lvs.; and calyx villous-hirsute: lvs. opposite, long-petioled, oval or cordate, crenate: fls. in axillary umbels of 3-6 fls., bright yellow or yellowish green, red- or brown-dotted; calyx adnate to ovary, 5-lobed, lobes almost horizontally spreading; corolla almost oblique at base, tube slightly inflected, limb 5-lobed, lobes rounded; ovary hirsute, surrounded by a glandular, 5-lobed ring. Colombia. B.M. 4843. Gt. 2:256. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

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Propagation

Easily propagated by both stem cuttings and division of the rhizomes^wp.

Pests and diseases

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Species

Many species and hybrids were lavishly illustrated in horticultural magazines such as Curtis's Botanical Magazine under the discarded or erroneous names of Achimenes, Gesneria, Isoloma, Sciadocalyx, and Tydaea. These species and hybrids almost entirely disappeared in the early 20th Century, and plant breeders have only recently begun to work extensively with this genus again^wp.

Several species are widespread, variable, weedy, and tend to hybridize in the wild, and numerous names have been described that are synonyms of other species or are hybrid taxa^wp.

Selected species and varieties^wp

• Kohleria affinis (syn. Capanea affinis)
• Kohleria allenii
• Kohleria amabilis
  • Kohleria amabilis var. amabilis
  • Kohleria amabilis var. bogotensis (syn. K. bogotensis)
• Kohleria hirsuta
• Kohleria inaequalis
• Kohleria spicata
• Kohleria tigridia (syn. Capanea grandiflora)
• Kohleria villosa
• Kohleria warscewiczii

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

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