Besleria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
- Genus
- Besleria
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Besleria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Besleria
Besleria is a genus of large herbs and soft-stemmed subshrubs or shrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. It includes 176 species native to tropical southern Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.
The closely related genus Gasteranthus was previously included in Besleria. The two genera have been separated on the basis of stomatal (aggregated in Gasteranthus, scattered in Besleria) and fruit (fleshy capsule in Gasteranthus, berry in Besleria) characters.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Besleria affinis
- Besleria aggregata
- Besleria amabilis
- Besleria angustiflora
- Besleria attenuata
- Besleria barbata
- Besleria barbensis
- Besleria barclayi
- Besleria brevicalyx
- Besleria calantha
- Besleria cinnabarina
- Besleria clivorum
- Besleria cognata
- Besleria columneoides
- Besleria comosa
- Besleria conspecta
- Besleria crassa
- Besleria cyrtanthemum
- Besleria decipiens
- Besleria deflexa
- Besleria delvillarii
- Besleria elegans
- Besleria elongata
- Besleria eriocalyx
- Besleria fallax
- Besleria fecunda
- Besleria filipes
- Besleria flava
- Besleria flavovirens
- Besleria floribunda
- Besleria florida
- Besleria formicaria
- Besleria gibbosa
- Besleria glabra
- Besleria grandifolia
- Besleria heterosepala
- Besleria hirsuta
- Besleria illustris
- Besleria immitis
- Besleria impressa
- Besleria inaequalis
- Besleria insolita
- Besleria kalbreyeri
- Besleria laeta
- Besleria lasiantha
- Besleria laxiflora
- Besleria lehmannii
- Besleria leucocarpa
- Besleria leucostoma
- Besleria lutea
- Besleria melancholica
- Besleria microphylla
- Besleria miniata
- Besleria mirifica
- Besleria modica
- Besleria nemorosa
- Besleria nitens
- Besleria notabilis
- Besleria nubigena
- Besleria obtusa
- Besleria oxyphylla
- Besleria patrisii
- Besleria pauciflora
- Besleria pendula
- Besleria pennellii
- Besleria petiolaris
- Besleria physaloides
- Besleria princeps
- Besleria quadrangulata
- Besleria reticulata
- Besleria riparia
- Besleria robusta
- Besleria salicifolia
- Besleria santaclarensis
- Besleria seitzii
- Besleria selloana
- Besleria silverstoneana
- Besleria solanoides
- Besleria spissa
- Besleria sprucei
- Besleria stricta
- Besleria strigillosa
- Besleria subcarnosa
- Besleria symphytum
- Besleria tambensis
- Besleria tetrangularis
- Besleria trichiata
- Besleria trichostegia
- Besleria triflora
- Besleria tuberculata
- Besleria variabilis
- Besleria ventricosa
- Besleria verecunda
- Besleria vestita
- Besleria villosa
- Besleria yaracuyensis
- Besleria yatuana































































































































































