Kohleria
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Description
Terrestrial or epipetric, caulescent, decumbent to erect herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, with scaly rhizomes. Stems rarely branched. Leaves opposite, rarely ternate, equal to subequal in a pair, venation pinnate, foliar nectaries absent. Flowers 1-6(-10) in axillary fasciculate or cymose inflorescences; epedunculate or rarely pedunculate; bracteoles small, but often caducous; pedicellate. Calyx lobes connate for ca. 1/3 their length, rarely free; corolla orange-red to orange-yellow, with red spots on limb or throat, funnelform or cylindric; stamens included to subincluded, filaments not connate, anthers coherent at apices and sides, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, thecae parallel; staminode present; disc usually of 5 free glands or of 3 free and 2 basally united glands or a 5-lobed ring; ovary half-inferior to nearly completely inferior, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a dry, brown capsule, loculicidally dehiscent, 2-valved, valves opening slightly.
Distribution
Guianas present, Northern America, Southern America: Peru (Peru present), Suriname present
A genus of 17 species ranging from Mexico to Peru and east to Suriname; 1 species in the Guianas.