Streptocarpus ulugurensis

Streptocarpus ulugurensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial endemic to the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania.[2]

Streptocarpus ulugurensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Genus: Streptocarpus
Section: S. sect. Saintpaulia
Species:
S. ulugurensis
Binomial name
Streptocarpus ulugurensis
(Haston) Haston[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Saintpaulia ulugurensis Haston

Streptocarpus ulugurensis is known from a single location of only five square meters on the eastern slope of the northern Uluguru Mountains. It grows on a steep mossy bank with ferns and mosses between rocks and tree roots, in the deep shade of submontane forest at 750 metres elevation.[1]

It was first described in 2009 as Saintpaulia ulugurensis.[3] The former genus Saintpaulia was reduced to Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia in 2015, and the species moved to Streptocarpus.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b IUCN SSC East African Plants Red List Authority. (2014). "Saintpaulia ulugurensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T179312A1574813. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T179312A1574813.en. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  2. ^ a b c "Streptocarpus ulugurensis (B.L.Burtt) Mich.Möller & Haston", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-10-21
  3. ^ "Streptocarpus ulugurensis (B.L.Burtt) Mich.Möller & Haston", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2020-10-21
  4. ^ Nishii, Kanae; Hughes, Mark; Briggs, Marie; Haston, Elspeth; Christie, Frieda; DeVilliers, Margaret J.; Hanekom, Thea; Roos, Wiets G.; Bellstedt, Dirk U. & Möller, Michael (2015), "Streptocarpus redefined to include all Afro-Malagasy Gesneriaceae: Molecular phylogenies prove congruent with geographical distribution and basic chromosome numbers and uncover remarkable morphological homoplasies" (PDF), Taxon, 64 (6): 1243–1274, doi:10.12705/646.8, retrieved 2020-03-12