Episcia cupreata

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Distribution

cCu – pEsp pPRc pMen AmC AmS

Central America: native Lesser Antilles: not native but possibly naturalised South America: native Puerto Rico: not native but possibly naturalised Cuba: cultivated Hispaniola: not native but possibly naturalised

Families in other Floras

Gesneriaceae Rich. & Juss., nom. cons., sec. Flora de Cuba
Gesneriaceae Rich. & Juss., nom. cons., sec. Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong 2012
Gesneriaceae Rich. & Juss., nom. cons., sec. Flora de la República de Cuba

Synonymy

Episcia cupreata (Hook.) Hanst. in Linnaea 34: 340. 1865 sec. Greuter & al. 2017

≡Achimenes cupreata Hook. in Bot. Mag. 73: ad t. 4312. 1847 syn. sec. Greuter & al. 2017
≡Cyrtodeira cupreata (Hook.) Hanst. in Linnaea 26: 207, 215. 1853 syn. sec. Clark, J. L., Suárez Terán, S. I. & Matos, J. 2019: Gesneriaceae. – In: Greuter, W., Rankin Rodríguez, R. & González Gutierrez, P. A. (ed.), Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Ser. A, Plantas vasculares, Fasc. 25

Type: "Lectotipo (Leeuwenberg 1958: 403): [espécimen] Colombia, “moist bank near So-na, N. Granada”, IX-1845, Purdie 470 (K #831424 [foto!])."1

1. Clark, J. L., Suárez Terán, S. I. & Matos, J. 2019: Gesneriaceae. – In: Greuter, W., Rankin Rodríguez, R. & González Gutierrez, P. A. (ed.), Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Ser. A, Plantas vasculares, Fasc. 25