Gesneria pedunculosa (DC.) Fritsch

Common Name: Arbol de Navidad
Family: Gesneriaceae Dumort.

Country of Origin: Puerto Rico

Description: Bats are the primary pollinators of G. pedunculosa, with bananaquits probably acting as secondary pollinators.²

Accession Data:

Accession # 201800076
Source: Dylan Hannon HBG 90697
Provenance:
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MBG 981994
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Additional provenance data on file but suppressed from public display.
Accession Date: 10-21-2018
Bench: 1301 - NEOA: East Bench NN
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-05-2021

Classification:

Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
SubClass: euasterid I
Order: Lamiales
SubOrder:
Family: Gesneriaceae
SubFamily: Gesneroideae
Tribe: Gesnerieae
SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:

Year	Jan				Feb				Mar					Apr				May				Jun					Jul				Aug				Sep					Oct				Nov				Dec
2021
2020
2019

References (internal):

Bat Pollinated (chiropterophily)

EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Puerto Rico

References (external):

The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.
Martén-Rodríguez, Silvana, and Charles B. Fenster. Pollination Ecology and Breeding Systems of Five Gesneria Species from Puerto Rico. Annals of Botany 102.1 (2008): 23–30. PMC. Web. 25 Sept. 2018. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.

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