Gesneria ventricosa

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Gesneria ventricosa, photographed by Michael Bakker Paiva — fig. a Michael Bakker Paiva, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-09 / obs. 173200855

Gesneria ventricosa, photographed by Dan Schofield — fig. c Dan Schofield, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176061369

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 00866187
Filed as: Gesneria ventricosa Sw.
Det. by: S. A. Mori 2006-01-01
Collected: S. A. Mori 2006-08-10
Origin: BQ
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Gesneria ventricosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Jamaica	JAM	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Leeward Is.	LEE
Windward Is.	WIN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Conradia ventricosa (Sw.) Mart. ex G.Don
Conradia ventricosa (Sw.) Mart.
Conradia ventricosa var. angustior DC.
Gesneria angustior (DC.) Kuntze
Gesneria cymosa Urb.
Gesneria herminieri (Decne.) Kuntze
Gesneria lindleyana (Decne.) Kuntze
Gesneria longiflora (Lindl.) Baill.
Gesneria montana (Decne.) Kuntze
Gesneria ventricosa f. montana (Decne.) Stehlé
Gesneria ventricosa f. obovata (Urb.) Stehlé
Gesneria ventricosa f. ovata (Urb.) Stehlé
Gesneria ventricosa var. obovata Urb.
Gesneria ventricosa var. ovata Urb.
Pentaraphia florida Decne.
Pentaraphia herminieri Decne.
Pentaraphia lindleyana Decne.
Pentaraphia longiflora Lindl.
Pentaraphia longiflora Rolfe
Pentaraphia longiflora var. lindleyana (Decne.) Duss
Pentaraphia montana Decne.
Pentaraphia swartzii Decne.
Pentaraphia ventricosa (Sw.) Hanst.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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