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Moussonia is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. Its native range stretches from Mexico to Central America. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.




Description


They are herbaceous plants, or shrubs. It has an erect, branched stem, without scaly rhizomes. The leaves are arranged in the opposite way. The inflorescences are axillary, in cymes or solitary flowers. The corolla is red, orange or yellow, in the form of a long tube, which is broader in the centre. With the base of the extremities and narrow throat. The fruit (or seed capsule) is a dry, ovoid or ellipsoidal bivalve capsule.




Taxonomy


It was previously included in the genus Kohleria, but with a different chromosomal number 2n=11, the ring-shaped nectary and without rhizomes. The molecular results support the separation of this genus.
The genus name of Moussonia is in honour of Albert Mousson (1805–1890), a physicist and a malacologist from Switzerland..
It was first described and published in Flora Vol.31 on page 248 in 1848.




Species


Plants of the World Online (Kew) accepts 24 species;

Moussonia adpressipilosa D.L.Denham ex Ram.-Roa
Moussonia ampla L.E.Skog
Moussonia benitojuarezii Ram.-Roa & Flores-Fausto
Moussonia collina (Brandegee) Ram.-Roa
Moussonia costaricensis Klotzsch ex Oerst.
Moussonia deppeana (Schltdl. & Cham.) Klotzsch ex Hanst.
Moussonia elegans Decne.
Moussonia fruticosa (Brandegee) Wiehler
Moussonia hirsutissima (C.V.Morton) Wiehler
Moussonia jaliscana (S.Watson) D.L.Denham ex Ram.-Roa
Moussonia larryskogii Ram.-Roa
Moussonia orientalis Ram.-Roa
Moussonia papillosa Oerst. ex Hanst.
Moussonia pedunculata (Brandegee) Ram.-Roa
Moussonia pendula (C.V.Morton) Ram.-Roa
Moussonia rupicola (Standl. & L.O.Williams) Wiehler
Moussonia serrulata (C.V.Morton) Wiehler
Moussonia skutchii (C.V.Morton & D.N.Gibson) Wiehler
Moussonia solitaria (C.V.Morton) Ram.-Roa
Moussonia strigosa (C.V.Morton) Wiehler
Moussonia tacanaensis Ram.-Roa
Moussonia tenuiflora Ram.-Roa
Moussonia triflora (M.Martens & Galeotti) Hanst.
Moussonia viminalis (Brandegee) Wiehler
Moussonia elegans Decne. is the type species.




References






Other sources


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.
Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa U., A. Pool & O. M. Montiel 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: i–xlii, 1–2666
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