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| name = ''Kohleria''
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| color = IndianRed
 
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| familia = Gesneriaceae
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| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
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| genus = Kohleria
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| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
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| familia = [[Gesneriaceae]]
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| genus = '''''Kohleria'''''
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| genus_authority = [[Eduard August von Regel|Regel]]
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''Kohleria'' is a [[New World]] [[genus]] of the [[flowering plant]] family [[Gesneriaceae]]{{wp}}.
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''Kohleria'' is a [[New World]] [[genus]] of the [[flowering plant]] family [[Gesneriaceae]]. The plants are generally tropical herbs or subshrubs with velvety stems and foliage and brightly colored flowers with spots or markings in contrasting colors. They are rhizomatous and commonly include a period of dormancy in their growth cycle. The genus was recently revised by Kvist & Skog (1992) and was recognized as having 19 species distributed in [[Central America]] and [[South America]]. Recent phylogenetic work by Roalson et al. (2005) indicated that the epiphytic genus ''Capanea'' is derived from within Kohleria, and the two species of ''Capanea'' were subsequently transferred to ''Kohleria''. The genus ''[[Pearcea]]'' is closely related.
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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.
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==Cultivation==
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===Propagation===
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Easily propagated by both stem cuttings and division of the rhizomes{{wp}}.
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Because of their colorful and exotically patterned flowers, as well as a general interest in the many tropical flowering plants that were being introduced for the first time from the Americas, kohlerias were very popular in [[England]] and [[Europe]] in the 19th Century. Many species and [[hybrid]]s 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.
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===Pests and diseases===
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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.
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==Species==
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Many species and [[hybrid]]s 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}}.  
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;Selected species and varieties
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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}}.
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;Selected species and varieties{{wp}}
 
*''[[Kohleria affinis]]'' (syn. ''Capanea affinis'')
 
*''[[Kohleria affinis]]'' (syn. ''Capanea affinis'')
 
*''[[Kohleria allenii]]''
 
*''[[Kohleria allenii]]''
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*''[[Kohleria warscewiczii]]''
 
*''[[Kohleria warscewiczii]]''
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===Cultivation===
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Their showy flowers and ease of culture have made them popular with growers of indoor [[houseplant]]s. Numerous species and hybrids are now in cultivation, some with patterned or variegated foliage as well as vivid flowers. They are easily propagated by both stem cuttings and division of the rhizomes.
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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==References and external Links==
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*Kvist, L.P. & L.E. Skog.  1992. Revision of ''Kohleria'' (Gesneriaceae). ''Smithsonian Contributions to Botany'' 79: 1-83.
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*Roalson, E.H., J.K. Boggan, L.E., Skog, & E.A. Zimmer. 2005a. Untangling the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae). I. Phylogenetic patterns and generic boundaries inferred from nuclear, chloroplast, and morphological cladistic data sets. ''Taxon'' 54 (2): 389-410.
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*Roalson, E.H., J.K. Boggan & L.E. Skog. 2005. Reorganization of tribal and generic boundaries in the Gloxinieae (Gesneriaceae: Gesnerioideae) and the description of a new tribe in the Gesnerioideae, Sphaerorrhizeae. ''Selbyana'' 25 (2): 225-238.
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*[http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Botany/pdf/scb-0079h.pdf Revision of ''Kohleria'' (pdf file)]
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*[http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/morphology/genera_gesneriaceae/genera/Kohleria.htm ''Kohleria''] from [http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/morphology/genera_gesneriaceae/index.htm The Genera of Gesneriaceae]
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*[http://gesneriads.ca/genkohle.htm ''Kohleria'' and ''Koellikeria''] from the [http://gesneriads.ca Gesneriad Reference Web]
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