Greek streptos — twisted, karpos — fruit.
Annual, perennial or once-flowering, upright or creeping herbs or occasionally subshrubs. Leaves hairy, sometimes dotted, or purple below, if solitary or in a basal rosette then arising from a rhizome-like structure. Flowers axillary or in branched clusters, 2-lipped. Stamens 2. Ovary superior. Fruit a narrow, cylindrical, twisted capsule.
Grown generally as indoor pot plants.
Stem or leaf cuttings, occasionally seed or division.
Stamens 2, the flower tube longer than the lobes; capsule twisted.
About 130 species from tropical C and E Africa, Madagascar, Thailand and S China to the E Indies.
Arnold (1972, 1979).
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.