Achimenes skinneri Lindl., J. Hort. Soc. London 2: 293, pl. 4, fig. 2. (1847). Lectotype, designated here, the colored illustration included with the original description, J. Hort. Soc. London, volume 2, plate 4, figure 2. (1847)

Besleria barbensis Hanst., Linnaea 34: 319 (1865). Neotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Heredia, Headwaters of Río Santo Domingo, ca. 3 km E of San Rafael de Vara Blanca, N slope of Volcán Barva, 16 Apr 1986, Grayum 7189 (US! [US00460140]), isoneotype (MO! [MO acc. no. 04469658])

Besleria columneoides Hanst., Linnaea 34: 322 (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, San Miguel, Wendland 762 (GOET (image)! [GOET003867])

Besleria flavovirens Nees & Mart. Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Car. Nat. Cur. 11: 49. 1823. Lectotype, designated by : 12): Brazil, von Wied. s.n. BR (image)! (BR691 181)

Besleria princeps Hanst., Linnaea 34: 317 (1865). Lectotype, (first step), : 465) Wendland 1273; second step (designated here): Costa Rica, Wendland 1273 (GOET (image)! [GOET003869])

Besleria triflora (Oerst.) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 329 (1865). Parabesleria triflora Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 52, t. 6, figs. 1–8 (1858). Lectotype (first step), : 440) “Costa Rica, Cartago, Turrialba, Oersted (Co)”; second step (designated here): Oersted 9285 (C (image)! [C10012718]), isolectotype (C (image)! [C10012719])

Chrysothemis pulchella (Donn ex Sims) Decne., Rev. Hortic., ser. 3. 3: 242 (1849); Besleria pulchella Donn ex Sims, Bot. Mag. 28, t. 1146 (1808). Lectotype designated by Leeuwenberg, 1958: 334: Cultivated, Aug. 1808, Woodford s.n. (BM (image)! [BM000617752])

Cobananthus calochlamys (Donn. Sm.) Wiehler, Selbyana 2: 94 (1977); Alloplectus calochlamys Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 27: 437 (1899). Lectotype (first step), Gibson, 1974: 251; (second step), Wiehler, 1977: 94: Guatemala, Sacoyojú, May 1879, Tuerckheim 456 (US! [US00126416])

Columnea calotricha Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 40: 9 (1905). Lectotype (first-step), designated by : 253), Tuerckheim 8542; second-step (designated here): Guatemala, Tuerckheim 8542 (US! [US00126463])

Columnea cobana Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 57: 424 (1914). Lectotype (first-step), designated by : 267); second-step (designated here): Guatemala, Tuerckheim 2475 (US! [US00126470])

Columnea consanguinea Hanst., Linnaea 34: 384 (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Wendland 509 (GOET (image)! [GOET003873])

Columnea crassifolia Brongn. ex Lem., Hort. Universel 5: 356 (1844). Neotype, designated here: Illustration in Lemaire, Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 3(11): 286–286b (1847)

Columnea erythrophaea Decne. ex Houll., Rev. Hort. 1867: 172, t. 14 (1867). Lectotype, designated here: Mexico, Chiapas, Jitotol, Linden 414 (K (image)! [K000641609]), isolectotype, (FI (image)! [FI009838I])

Columnea flaccida Seem., Bot. Voy. Herald 186 (1854). Lectotype, designated here: Panama, Seemann 1163 (K (image!) [K000644060])

Columnea glabra Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 62, tab. XI, fig. 18–23 (1858). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Cartago, Candelaria, Oersted 9287 (C (image)! [C10012728]), isolectotype (C (image)! [C10012727]

Columnea gloriosa Sprague, Bot. Mag. 137: tab. 8378 (1911). Lectotype, designated here: Cultivated at Kew in England from material collected in Costa Rica, Anon. s.n. (K (image)! [K000641610])

Columnea grata C.V.Morton, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 1164 (1938). Stenanthus heterophyllus Oerst. ex Hanst., Linnaea 26: 208. (1854[1853]). Columnea heterophylla (Oerst. ex Hanst) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 390 (1865), non : 97). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Oersted 9288 (C (image)! [C10012729]); isolectotypes: C (image)! [C10012730], C (image)! [C10012731]

Columnea hirta Klotzsch & Hanst. Linnaea 34: 403 (1865). Columnea hirsuta Klotzsch ex Oerst. (1858), non Columnea hirsuta . Neotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Cantón de Guápiles Los Angeles, San Miguel, Siguiendo el camino al Volcán Irazú, entre Río Blanco y Río Blanquito, 27 Feb 1990, Chacón & Herrera 797 (US! [US00506126]); isoneotype: (MO! [MO acc. no. 401423])

Columnea lepidocaulis (‘lepidocaula’) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 411 (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Valentini s.n. (HAL (image)! [HAL0116066])

Columnea nicaraguensis Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 62 (1858). Lectotype, designated here: Nicaragua, Oersted 9290 (C (image)! [C10012735]); isolectotype: (C (image)! [C10012736])

Columnea oerstediana Klotzsch ex Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 61 (1858). Lectotype, designated by : 388), as “holotype”: Costa Rica, Oersted 9291 (C (image)! [C10012739]); isolectotypes (C (image)! [C10012738], C (image)! [C10012737], US! [US00126489], US! [US00223524])

Columnea oxyphylla Hanst., Linnaea 34: 405 (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Wendland 778 (GOET (image)! [GOET003877])

Columnea purpurata Hanst., Linnaea 34: 386 (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Wendland 548 (GOET (image)! [GOET003878])

Columnea querceti Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 59 (1858). Lectotype designated here: Costa Rica, Oersted 9292 (C (image)! [C10012741]; isolectotype: C (image)! [C10012740])

Columnea sanguinolenta (Klotzsch ex Oerst.) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 389 (1865). Stenanthus sanguinolentus Klotzsch ex Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 49 (1858). Neotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Guanacaste, La Tejona, N of Tilaran, 600–700 m, 25 Jan 1926, Standley & Valerio 45757 (US! [US00223799]

Columnea schiedeana Schltdl., Linnaea 8: 249 (1833). Lectotype, designated here: Mexico, Schiede 128 (HAL (image)! [HAL0082525]); isolectotypes: HAL (image)! (HAL0107384), MO! [MO acc. no. 212062], NY! [NY3312596], P (image)! [P00603449]

Columnea sulfurea Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 31: 117 (1901). Lectotype (first-step), designated by : 270); second-step, designated here: Guatemala, Tuerckheim 7646 (US!) [US00126505], isolectotypes (US!) [US00126506; US00126507]

Columnea tenuis Klotzsch ex Oerst., Centralamer. Gesner. 63 (1858). Neotype, designated here: Panama, Chiriquí, Bajo Chorro, near Rio Caldera, 21 Mar 1977, Skog 4071 (US! [US00223894]

Drymonia alloplectoides Hanst., Linnaea 34: 358 (1865). Neotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Puntarenas, Canton de Osa, Golfo Dulce area, 0 m, 6 Jun 1949, Allen 5297 (US! [US00082232])

Drymonia conchocalyx Hanst., Linnaea 34: 360 (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Wendland 954] (GOET (image)! [GOET003910])

Drymonia macrantha (Donn. Sm.) D.N.Gibson, Phytologia 23: 336 (1972). Alloplectus macranthus Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 31: 117 (1901). Lectotype (first-step), designated by : 275); second-step, designated here: Guatemala, Tuerckheim 7642 (US!) [US00126435]

Drymonia oinochrophylla (Donn. Sm.) D.N.Gibson, Phytologia 23: 336 (1972), Alloplectus oinochrophyllus Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 54: 239 (1912). Lectotype (first-step) : 336); second-step, designated here: Guatemala, Pansamalá, Tuerckheim 1080 (US! [US00126434])

Drymonia ovata Hanst., Linnaea 34: 355. (1865). Lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Hoffmann 545 (GOET (image)! [GOET003888])

Drymonia parviflora Hanst., Linnaea 34: 352 (1865). Neotype, designated here: Costa Rica, Davidse 28369 (MO! [acc. no. 3212186]); isoneotype (US! [US 00992675])

Drymonia turrialvae Hanst., Linnaea 34: 359–360 (1865). Holotype: Costa Rica, Wendland 517 (B, destroyed); lectotype, designated here: Costa Rica, “Vulc. de Turrialba”, Wendland 517 (GOET (image)! [GOET003890])

Gasteranthus wendlandianus (Hanst.) Wiehler, Selbyana 1: 156 (1977). Besleria wendlandiana Hanst., Linnaea 34: 318 (1865). Lectotype, designated by Skog & Kvist, Syst. Bot. Monog. 59: 102 (2000): Costa Rica, Wendland 922 (GOET (image)! [GOET003896])

Moussonia deppeana (Schltdl. & Cham.) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 284 (1865). Gesneria deppeana Schltdl. & Cham., Linnaea 5: 110. (1830). Lectotype: Mexico, Schiede 186 (first-step), designated by : 299); second-step (designated here): Mexico, Schiede 186 (HAL (image)! [HAL 096235]); isolectotype (HAL (image)! [HAL 0114003]

Niphaea oblonga Lindl., Bot. Reg. 27: Misc. 80 (1841). Neotype, designated here: Cultivated in London from material collected in Guatemala by Hartweg, Cult. Hort. Soc. London s.n. (K (image!) [K000479996])

Rufodorsia congestiflora (Donn. Sm.) Wiehler. Selbyana 1: 146 (1973). Besleria congestiflora Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 61: 379 (1916). Lectotype, designated by , p. 147): Costa Rica, Tonduz 12658 (US! [US00126091])

Rhynchoglossum azureum (Schltdl.) B.L. Burtt, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 24: 168 (1962). Klugia azurea Schltdl., Linnaea 8: 248 (1833). Lectotype, designated here: Mexico, Schiede 127 (HAL (image)! [HAL098436]), isolectotype (NY (image)! [NY00312969])

Smithiantha cinnabarina (Linden) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 978 (1891). Gesneria (Naegelia) cinnabarina Linden, Hort. Lind. (Catalogue des Plantes Exotiques) 12: 2–3 (1857). Lectotype, designated here: Illustration in J. J. Linden, Hort. Lind. 12 (1857): unnumbered page and plate “Gesneria Naegelia Cinnabarina, Lind.”

Solenophora calycosa Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 25: 152 (1898). Lectotype, designated by : 987), as “type”: Costa Rica, Pittier 283 (CR (image!) [cat. no. CR283], photos F!, US!)

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