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Dicliptera aripoensis

Dicliptera aripoensis
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Trinidad (Mt. Aripo)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Dicliptera aripoensis is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. The species is only known from the Heights of Aripo, in Trinidad's Northern Range. It is a branching shrub, 1–1.5 m tall with red flowers about 3 cm long.

The species was described as Diapedium aripoense by American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1926, based on a collection made by Walter Elias Broadway in 1922. American botanist Emery Clarence Leonard transferred the species to the genus Dicliptera in 1954.

Other Dicliptera plants

Dicliptera beddomei · Branched foldwing · Chinese foldwing · Dicliptera ciliata · Dicliptera maclearii · Dicliptera mucronifolia · Dicliptera raui · Arizona foldwing · Dicliptera samoensis · Sixangle foldwing · Dicliptera spicata · Hummingbird Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dicliptera aripoensis 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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