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Anaheterotis pobeguinii is the only species in its genus, a small upright herb of the Melastomataceae family with purple to red flowers, growing from a tuber. It is a wild plant of West African woodland savanna, so it is rarely grown in gardens and specific care is not well documented.
Anaheterotis pobeguinii is a herb of the family Melastomataceae, in the monospecific genus Anaheterotis. Its species name is a homage to French explorer Charles-Henri Pobéguin.
It is distributed in tropical West Africa; endemic to the Woodland savanna of Guinea and Sierra Leone. It grows along rivers at an altitude of 1200–1400 meters.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anaheterotis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
