Sinningia bulbosa(Ker Gawl.) Wiehler

WFO wfo-0001273050 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. a Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-22 / obs. 145451062
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126548591
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120664478
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. d Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140499051
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. e Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120664452
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. f Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140499085
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. g Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145451021
Sinningia bulbosa, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126548562

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Sinningia bulbosa is native: Brazil Southeast Brazil Southeast
Native distribution of Sinningia bulbosa, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil Southeast BZL SOUTHERN AMERICA

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 31 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.

  • Coptocheile macrorrhiza Hoffmanns.
  • Corytholoma bulbosum (Ker Gawl.) Fritsch
  • Dircaea fascialis (Hook.) Decne.
  • Dircaea suttonii (Booth ex Lindl.) Lem.
  • Dircaea vauthieri (DC.) Decne.
  • Gesneria affinis Hort. Petropolitanus
  • Gesneria bulbosa Ker Gawl.
  • Gesneria bulbosa subsp. dentata (Hornsch.) Walp.
  • Gesneria bulbosa var. dentata (Hornsch.) Klotzsch
  • Gesneria bulbosa var. faucialis (Lindl.) Klotzsch
  • Gesneria bulbosa var. macrorrhiza (Dumort.) Klotzsch
  • Gesneria bulbosa var. splendens Klotzsch
  • Gesneria bulbosa var. suttonii (Booth ex Lindl.) Klotzsch
  • Gesneria dentata Hornsch.
  • Gesneria fascialis Hook.
  • Gesneria faucialis Lindl.
  • Gesneria latifolia var. gaudichaudi DC.
  • Gesneria lobulata Hort.Berol. ex Hanst.
  • Gesneria macrorrhiza Dumort.
  • Gesneria suttoni Booth ex Lindl.
  • Gesneria vauthieri DC.
  • Isoloma bulbosum Baill.
  • Megapleilis tuberosa Raf.
  • Rechsteineria bulbosa (Ker Gawl.) Kuntze

and 7 more.

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. 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.

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.