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Aciotis olivieriana

Family
Melastomataceae (Melastomat family)
Native range
Colombia to Peru and N. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

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Aciotis olivieriana is a plant species native to Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. It occurs in disturbed habitats such as river banks, the edges of forests at elevations less than 1350 m.

Aciotis olivieriana is an erect or trailing herb up to 40 cm tall, sometimes reproducing by means of stolons running along the surface of the ground. Leaves have narrowly winged petioles up to 4 cm long; blades are heart-shaped, up to 5 cm long, dark green on the upper side, lighter green below because of hairs. Inflorescence is a compound cyme with many small purple flowers lacking the glands that are present on the petals of some related species.

Other Aciotis plants

Aciotis paludosa · Aciotis rubricaulis · Aciotis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aciotis olivieriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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