Oreocharis

Puglisi, Carmen, Wei, Yi-Gang, Nishii, Kanae & Möller, Michael, 2011, Oreocharis × heterandra (Gesneriaceae): a natural hybrid from the Shengtangshan Mountains, Guangxi, China, Phytotaxa 38, pp. 1-18 : 14

Parentage of Oreocharis × heterandra

A recent molecular phylogenetic analysis including 43 samples, covering 40 species and one variety of a recently greatly enlarged genus Oreocharis s. l. (now>80 species) showed that O. argyreia and O. magnidens have unique ITS and trn L-F sequences ( Möller et al. 2011). Since both parental trn L-F sequences and the combined ITS sequences were found in individual hybrid plants here, these Oreocharis species are unequivocally the parents of O. × heterandra .