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Mendoncia velloziana

Mendoncia velloziana
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil, CC BY 2.0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Climber
Native range
S. Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Mendoncia velloziana is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a liana native to tropical South America, ranging from Colombia and Peru through northern, eastern, and southern Brazil to Paraguay.

native to Atlantic Coast restingas vegetation which is an ecosystem of Atlantic Forest biome. In addition, this plant grows either in Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant grows in following states of Brazil: Bahia, Ceará Minas Gerais Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, and it is usually visited by the hummingbirds.

Other Mendoncia plants

Mendoncia mollis · Mendoncia puberula · Mendoncia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mendoncia velloziana 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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