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Mendoncia

Mendoncia
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from France, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Climber

About

Mendoncia is a genus of climbing plants in the family Acanthaceae.

It is native to the tropical Americas from southern Mexico to Paraguay and southern Brazil, and to tropical Africa and Madagascar. In South America, some of its species are endemic to Brazil in the Atlantic Forest and/or Cerrado ecoregions. In Africa the largest number of species is found in Cameroon and Gabon.

Other Mendoncia plants

Mendoncia mollis · Mendoncia puberula · Mendoncia velloziana

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

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