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June 2025

latest classification for this taxon

species

Streptocarpus ionanthus (H.Wendl.) Christenh.

This species name was first published in Phytotaxa 46: 6 (2012)

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0001429506.

Literature

CHRISTENHUSZ, M. J. M. (2012). On African violets and Cape primroses—towards a monophyletic Streptocarpus (Gesneriaceae) Phytotaxa, 46(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.46.1.2

Synonyms of Streptocarpus ionanthus (H.Wendl.) Christenh.

Name	Author	Protologue	Nomenclator	WFO link
Saintpaulia kewensis	C.B.Clarke	Fl. Trop. Afr. 4(2): 501 (1906)		wfo-0000497234
Saintpaulia ionantha	H.Wendl.	Gartenflora 42: 321 (1893)		wfo-0000497241
Petrocosmea ionantha	(H.Wendl.) Rodigas	Ill. Hort. 42: 108 (-109). 1895		wfo-0000745860
Saintpaulia tongwensis	B.L.Burtt	Gard. Chron. , ser. 3, 122: 23 (1947)		wfo-0001064890
Saintpaulia ionantha var. albescens	Bedd.	J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 33:97. (1908)	—	wfo-1200023625

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