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Plorok (Gloxinia perennis)

Dlium Plorok (Gloxinia perennis)

Plorok (Gloxinia perennis) is a plant species in the Gesneriaceae, tropical herb, has rhizomatous, erect stem up to 60-120 cm, tubular, branched, green and red spots, grows wild in shady and humid places, rocks, river banks and slopes wet.

G. perennis has leaves arranged sitting opposite on a stalk, slightly rounded, heart-shaped base, pointed tip, serrated margin and has a thin maroon line. A bone in the middle and white with many pinnate veins.



The leaves are thick, the top surface is dark green and a yellow tinge, shiny, bumpy and sometimes have small rashes. The bottom surface is bright green and maroon.

The flower is striking, bell-shaped, about 4 cm long, horizontal, has fine hairs, is pale purple on the outside and dark purple at the base of the hallway, smells minty, clustered and solitary. The fruit is round to elliptical and contains many small seeds.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Subfamily: Gesnerioideae
Tribe: Gesnerieae
Subtribe: Gloxiniinae
Genus: Gloxinia L'Hér. in W.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 2: 331 (1789)
Species: Gloxinia perennis (L.) Druce in Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 418 (1913 publ. 1914)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Gloxinia maculata L'Hér. in W.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 2: 331 (1789)
Martynia perennis L. in Sp. Pl.: 618 (1753)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Escheria gloxiniifolia Regel in Flora 32: 179 (1849)
Eucolum crassifolium Salisb. in Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 98 (1796)
Gloxinia bicolor Poepp. ex Hanst. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 8(1): 419 (1864)
Gloxinia heterophylla Poepp. in E.F.Poeppig & S.L.Endlicher, Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 3: 9 (1840)
Gloxinia pallidiflora Hook. in Bot. Mag. 72: t. 4213 (1846)
Gloxinia suaveolens Decne. in Rev. Hort. (Paris), sér. 3, 2: 463 (1848)
Gloxinia trichantha Miq. in Linnaea 22: 473 (1849)
Gloxinia trichotoma Moench in Suppl. Meth.: 194 (1802)
Salisia gloxiniiflora Regel (1849)
Salisia maculata Regel in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 9: 894 (1851)
Salisia pallidiflora (Hook.) Regel (1851)
Salisia suaveolens (Decne.) Regel (1851)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter G: 1-40325.

Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.

Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri

Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Smith, A.C. (1991). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 5: 1-626. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Plorok
Indonesian: Plorok
Java: Plorok

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