Sinningia eumorpha 'Saltao' x sp. "Ibitioca"

At the 2006 Gesneriad Society convention, Bill Price gave me a tuber of his cross S. eumorpha 'Saltao' x sp. "Ibitioca".  It first bloomed for me in May 2007, at the same time as S. sp. "Ibitioca".

The flowers look a lot like those of S. sp. "Ibitioca": purple, campanulate (bell-shaped), with a yellow guide in the throat.  The habit is derived from S. eumorpha: an erect stem with flowerstalks in the leaf axils.  This makes for a tidier plant than sp. "Ibitioca", which often sprawls.  The hybrid also has (for me, in 2007) four flowers per axil, up from S. eumorpha's one (or occasionally two).  The downside is that this crowds the flowers a bit.

This picture shows the hybrid flower on top, and the Sinningia sp. "Ibitioca" flower on the bottom.  The hybrid flower has a wide yellow strip in the corolla throat, inherited from S. eumorpha.  The purple of the "Ibitioca" flower is just a bit denser.

This picture shows the flowers from the side, again with the hybrid on top.  The flowers are essentially the same size, with the hybrid having the "slipper" shape from S. eumorpha.

Both parents have big leaves, and the cross has really big leaves.  One leaf blade (not counting the petiole) is 24 cm [9.5 inches] long.