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| Plant Description | |
|---|---|
| Attribute | Information |
| Growth | Erect stem, flowering on extended axis |
| Leaves | |
| Dormancy | Stems fully deciduous |
| Flowering | |
| Attribute | Information |
| Flowering season | |
| Inflorescence | Extended axis |
| Flower | Red, tubular |
| Horticultural Aspects | |
| Attribute | Information |
| Hardiness | I have no data yet. |
| Botany | |
| Attribute | Information |
| Taxonomic group | The tall-or-sticky group of the Corytholoma clade. |
This is one of the tall, sun-loving species. My seedling has not bloomed yet, so this picture, showing red spots on the stem, will have to do for the moment. These red markings are found on the stems of other species too, most notably Sinningia lineata. Since S. lineata and S. allagophylla are not closely related, being in different subdivisions ("clades") of the genus, these stem markings do not appear to have taxonomic meaning, but it certainly is interesting that they appear in distinct branches of Sinningia, but not in (for instance) Nematanthus (as far as I know).
The page which discusses the incentives for a plant to make a tuber has a picture of S. allagophylla seedlings recovering from complete defoliation.
See a picture on Ron Myhr's Gesneriad Reference Web.
Sinningia tribracteata (see the page on Mauro Peixoto's web site) is considered to be a synonym of S. allagophylla.
Sinningia allagophylla was first published (as a Gesneria) in 1829 by Carl Friedrich Phillip von Martius (1794-1868). It was later the type species of Rechsteineria (1848). Hans Wiehler transferred it to Sinningia in 1975.
Etymology: allago- ("different" ?) + -phyll ("leaf").