Phinaea

Phinaea is a genus of flowering plants in family Gesneriaceae. It contains three species native to the Americas, including western and central Mexico, Cuba and Haiti, and Colombia and northern Brazil.^[1]

Phinaea
Phinea albolineata, Niphea argyroneura, c1850
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Phinaea Benth. (1876)
Species[1]
3; see text

Species

Three species are accepted.^[1]

• Phinaea albolineata (Hook.) Benth. ex Hemsl. – northeastern Colombia and northern Brazil (Pará)
• Phinaea multiflora C.V.Morton – western and central Mexico
• Phinaea pulchella (Griseb.) C.V.Morton – western Cuba and Haiti
  • Phinaea pulchella var. domingensis (Urb. & Ekman) C.V.Morton – Haiti (Massif de la Hotte)
  • Phinaea pulchella var. pulchella – western Cuba

Formerly placed here

• Amalophyllon divaricatum (Poepp.) Boggan, L.E.Skog & Roalson (as Phinaea divaricata (Poepp.) Wiehler)
• Amalophyllon ecuadoranum (Wiehler) J.L.Clark (as Phinaea ecuadorana Wiehler)