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Green Shrimp Plant

Ecbolium viride

Green Shrimp Plant
Photo: Daderot, CC0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
NE. Trop. Africa to Kenya, Arabian Pen., W. India
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

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Ecbolium viride is a species of Ecbolium of the family Acanthaceae. It can be found in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, where it is widely used as a medicinal plant.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ecbolium viride 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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