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Dicliptera raui

Dicliptera raui
Photo: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Himalaya to Bangladesh
Climate
subtropical

About

Dicliptera raui (a.k.a. Peristrophe speciosa) is a flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae.

Where it grows

It is a native of Northern India to Bangladesh and occurs in the foothills of the central & eastern Himalayas up 1,600 metres elevation.

Other Dicliptera plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dicliptera raui 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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