Sarmienta ( lat. Sarmienta ) - a genus of plants of the Gesneriaceae family ( lat. Gesneriaceae ) that includes 2 species of creeping or climbing perennial shrubs .
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Content
- 1 Etymology of the name
- 2 Botanical Description
- 3 Area and climatic conditions
- 4 Use in culture
- 5 Agricultural technology
- 6 Views
- 7 notes
- 8 Literature
- 9 References
Name Etymology
It is named after Martino Sarmiento, a Spanish Benedictine monk, philologist and naturalist of the 18th century.
Botanical Description
Climbing or creeping epiphytic perennial shrubs . The stems are long, thin, winding, weakly branching, rooting in the basal nodes. The leaves are small, opposite , almost sessile, ovoid or almost round, rather fleshy, shiny, glabrous, barely visible venation, dentate closer to the apex. The flowers are axillary , solitary, hanging. Sepals separate, linear or lanceolate. The corolla is tubular elongated, barrel-shaped, with a limb, divided into 5 rounded lobes, scarlet. The stamens and pestle are much longer than the corolla; the general appearance resembles a fuchsia flower. The fruit is a fleshy berry.
Habitat and climatic conditions
Chile, foothills of the Andes .
Cultural Use
Rare plant in room culture.
Agricultural Engineering
The plant is grown at a temperature of about 18 Β° C.
Views
- Sarmienta repens
- Sarmienta scandens
Notes
- β For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
Literature
- All about indoor violets. / Van der Neer, - SPb .: S3KEO Crystal LLC, Moscow: Onyx, 2007
Links
- [1] (link unavailable) in A. Weber & LE Skog 2007, Genera of Gesneriaceae .
- World Checklist of Gesneriaceae