Commemorating Wilhelm Sinning (1792–1874), Prussian horticulturist and botanist.
Perennial herbs and shrubs usually with tubers but occasionally rhizomatous. Leaves opposite or in whorls, often at the base of the stem. Flowers solitary or clustered in the leaf axils. Calyx tubular to angled or winged at the base. Corolla bell-shaped to cylindrical, 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, upper 2-lobed. Stamens 4, with anthers adhering in a crucifix shape. Fruit a capsule. [Rechsteineria Regel]
Grown for the spectacular and colourful velvety trumpet flowers.
Division of tubers, cuttings of new shoots, leaf cuttings (tubers, not new plantlets, are produced at the cut), occasionally seed.
Large, velvety, trumpet-shaped flowers.
60 species from tropical America especially south and east Brazil.
Moore (1954a), Dates (1988), Chautems (1990).
Source: (2002). Gesneriaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
