SINNINGIA WARMINGII

This member of the Gesneriaceae family was first described by Hiern in Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1877-78: 90 in 1877 as Gesneria warmingii. Later, in 1990, Chautems moved it to the Sinningias. It is from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, where it is found in a well-drained soil with some water and some sun. The caudex can grow to five centimetres in diameter, the stems will reach up to 30 centimetres. The flowers are pale red, and it can be reproduced both by seeds and cuttings. The genera is named after Wilhelm Sinning,1792–1874, a gardener of the Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. The species name in honour of Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, 1841-1924, a Danish botanist whose work on the relations between living plants and their surroundings made him a founder of plant ecology.