Moussonia (plant)

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.[1]

Moussonia
Moussonia deppeana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Genus: Moussonia
Regel

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.[2]

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.[3]

The genus name of Moussonia is in honour of Albert Mousson (1805–1890), a physicist and a malacologist from Switzerland..[4] It was first described and published in Flora Vol.31 on page 248 in 1848.[1]

Species

Plants of the World Online (Kew) accepts 22 species;[1]

  • Moussonia adpressipilosa D.L.Denham ex Ram.-Roa
  • Moussonia ampla L.E.Skog
  • 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 viminalis (Brandegee) Wiehler

Moussonia elegans Decne. is the type species.[5]

References
  1. "Moussonia Regel | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. Joachim W. Kadereit (Editor) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including ... (2012) , p. 117, at Google Books
  3. Wiehler, Hans (January 1975). "The Re-Establishment of Moussonia Regel (Gesneriaceae)". Selbyana. 1 (1): 22–31. JSTOR 41759579.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. Joseph Paxton and John Lindley [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bz1rXOmsHN0C&pg=PA127 Paxton's Flower Garden Vol.1 (1850)], p. 127, at Google Books

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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