Sinningia sellovii(Mart.) Wiehler

WFO wfo-0001064922 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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 sellovii, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. a Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / 2019-04-09 / obs. 36112355
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. b Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44211986
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. c Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44211692
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by E Santos Ortega
fig. d E Santos Ortega, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173340476
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. e Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44211987
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. f Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44211707
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by E Santos Ortega
fig. g E Santos Ortega, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173340502
Sinningia sellovii, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. h Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 44211730

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Sinningia sellovii is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil West-CentralParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Sinningia sellovii, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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 6 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.

  • Corytholoma sellovii (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Corytholoma sellowii (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Gesneria coccinea Rojas
  • Gesneria sellovii Mart.
  • Rechsteineria ramboi Hoehne
  • Rechsteineria sellovii (Mart.) Kuntze

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.