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Ptilochaeta nudipes

Ptilochaeta nudipes
Photo: Thomaz Ricardo Favreto Sinani, CC BY 4.0

Ptilochaeta nudipes is a shrub or small tree from seasonally dry tropical South America, known from Bolivia, west-central Brazil and northwest Argentina. It is a wild species of little horticultural interest, and little is documented about growing it.

Family
Malpighiaceae (Malpighi family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Bolivia to WC. Brazil and NW. Argentina
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ptilochaeta nudipes is a species of flowering plant in the Malpighiaceae family. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia. It is threatened by habitat loss from agricultural activities.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilochaeta nudipes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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