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Sanchezia parviflora

Sanchezia parviflora
Photo: Skjold Søndergaard https://www.inaturalist.org/people/skjoldalsted, CC BY 4.0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Native range
Panama to Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

About

Sanchezia parviflora is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Where it grows

Sanchezia parviflora are widely distributed and known from 13 subpopulations in Costa, Sierra, and Oriente regions. It is a strub of piemontano coastal and amazonian forest that is found at an elevational of 0–1,500 meters.

Other Sanchezia plants

Sanchezia lampra · Sanchezia sericea · Sanchezia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sanchezia parviflora 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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