Named for Joséphine Tascher de la Pagérie, wife of Napoléon Bonaparte and patron of gardening.

Perennial, short rhizomatous evergreen twining vine with branching, woody stems. Leaves many, ovate to broadly lance-shaped, stalked. Flowers radially symmetrical, bell-shaped, pendulous. Inflorescence 1 flowered, axillary; bracts several.Tepals 3+3, free. Stamens 6, free, inwards facing. Ovary superior, ovoid. Fruit an elongate berry. Seeds numerous, pale yellow.

Grown in cool, moist, shady conditions for the spectacular simple waxy bell flowers.

1 species from cool temperate S Chile.

Vine with reticulate leaves and large, waxy, bell-shaped flowers with inward-facing anthers.

Gardner (1995).

Source: Conran, J. (2005). Philesiaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.