Author: | Hans
Joachim Wiehler, 1978 |
Family: |
GESNERIACEAE |
Origin: |
NE Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
Soil: |
Rich |
Water:
|
Medium |
Sun: |
Medium |
Thickness: |
25-40
Centimetres |
Height: |
90
Centimetres |
Flower:
|
Orange-Red
- Pale Yellow |
Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
Names:
|
- |
Synonyms: |
Gesneria sellovii, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius,
1829.
Rechsteineria sellovii, Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze.
Rechsteineria ramboi Hoehne,1958.
By mistake: Sinningia sellowii |
This member of the
Gesneriaceae family was given this name by Hans
Joachim Wiehler in 1978. It is found in north-eastern Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, growing in a rich but well drained soil with some water and
some sun. The caudex can grow to 25 or even 40 centimetres in
diameter, the stems
erect up to 90 centimetres, and the flowers are orange-red or even
yellow. The genera is
named after Wilhelm Sinning,1792–1874, a gardener of the Botanische
Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. The species is named
after Friedrich Sellow, 1789–1831, a German botanist. |