Family | GESNERIACEAE |
Genus species | Boeica fulva C.B.Clarke |
Bibliography | Commelyn. Cyrtandr. Bengal.: 118 (1874) |
Native Range | se. Tibet to e. Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Altitude | 1300-1400m |
Description | stems lanate, glabrescent, leaves petiolate, oblanceolate, 10-17cm, adaxially lanate, glabrescent, cuneate, irregularly shallowly denticulate, cymes many flowered, corolla ca. 4mm |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 13-18°C leaf cuttings in summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (ASS Assam, EHM East Himalaya) |