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  • adjective botany Of or relating to Gesneriaceae, a family of flowering plants.

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  • Endemic flora of the Catatumbo forests include species in the Araceae family — Anthurium praemontanum, Philodendron mesae, Rodospatha perezii, and Spanthiphyllum perezii, and the gesneriaceous Besleria ornata, which is related to B. immitis of the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon.

    Catatumbo moist forests 2007

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