Moussonia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Gesneriaceae
Subfamilia: Gesnerioideae
Tribus: Gesnerieae
Subtribus: Gloxiniinae
Genus: Moussonia
Species: M. adpressipilosa – M. ampla – M. deppeana – M. elegans – M. fruticosa – M. hirsutissima – M. jaliscana – M. larryskogii – M. rupicola – M. septentrionalis – M. serrulata – M. skutchii – M. strigosa – M. triflora – M. viminalis
Name

Moussonia Regel, Flora 31: 248 (1848).
Type species: Moussonia elongata Regel

Synonyms

Homotypic
Kohleria sect. Moussonia (Regel) Fritsch in Engl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3b): 179. 1894.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Mexico & Southern America
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Panamá

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Regel, E.A. von 1848. Flora 31: 248.

Additional references

Clark J.L., Skog L.E., Boggan J.K. & Ginzbarg, S. 2020. Index to names of New World members of the Gesneriaceae (subfamilies Sanangoideae and Gesnerioideae). Rheedea: Official Journal of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy 30(1): 190-256. DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.14 PDF Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Moussonia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Aug. 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Moussonia. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 2 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Moussonia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2 Aug. 2020.
Hassler, M. 2021. Moussonia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Sep 08. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. (Moussonia). Moussonia (Gesneriaceae). Accessed: 08 Sep 2021.

Vernacular names

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]

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

"Moussonia Regel | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
Joachim W. Kadereit (Editor) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including ... (2012) , p. 117, at Google Books
Wiehler, Hans (January 1975). Selbyana. 1 (1): 22–31 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41759579. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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