Streptocarpus Lindl.

Cape Primrose

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: Spencer, R. (2002). Gesneriaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.

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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Gesneriaceae
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species         Streptocarpus ×hybridus Voss.