Gloxinia perennis(L.) Fritsch

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WFO wfo-0001064619 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Gloxinia perennis, photographed by Eduardo A. Bolaños Vargas
fig. a Eduardo A. Bolaños Vargas, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-29 / obs. 97972987
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by rappman
fig. b rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13725325
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by Mateo Puerta
fig. c Mateo Puerta, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107550790
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by Mateo Puerta
fig. d Mateo Puerta, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102894362
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. e desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60387754
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91731975
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by Mateo Puerta
fig. g Mateo Puerta, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107550798
Gloxinia perennis, photographed by Mateo Puerta
fig. h Mateo Puerta, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102894379

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Where it actually grows measured, from 132 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.7 °C 18.8 °C 23.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.6 °C 28.1 °C 32.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,454 mm 2,748 mm 5,311 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 45 mm 243 mm 649 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 132 research-grade observations of Gloxinia perennis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Escheria gloxiniaeflora Regel
  • Eucolum crassifolium Salisb.
  • Gloxinia bicolor Poepp. ex Hanst.
  • Gloxinia heterophylla Poepp.
  • Gloxinia maculata L'Hér.
  • Gloxinia maculata var. insignis Bedd.
  • Gloxinia maculata var. pallidiflora (Hook.) Bedd.
  • Gloxinia maculata var. sceptrum Bedd.
  • Gloxinia pallidiflora Hook.
  • Gloxinia suaveolens Decne.
  • Gloxinia trichantha Miq.
  • Gloxinia trichotoma Moench
  • Salisia gloxiniaeflora Regel
  • Salisia maculata (L'Hér.) Regel
  • Salisia pallidiflora (Hook.) Regel
  • Salisia suaveolens (Decne.) Regel

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol GLPE3. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.