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9 unusual facts about Acanthaceae


Anartia amathea

Larval host plants are mostly undetermined, but these include the families Acanthaceae and Labiatae.

Barleria cristata

Barleria cristata (Philippine violet, bluebell barleria or crested Philippine violet), is a plant of the Acanthaceae family.

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

In botany he achieved notoriety for, among other things, contributions to the Acanthaceae and Lauraceae families.

John Rutty

After his death his spiritual diary was published and the botanist William Henry Harvey named the genus Acanthaceae Ruttya after him.

Odontonema strictum

Odontonema strictum is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to South America.

Richard Kippist

His important papers include one on the discovery of spiral cells in the seeds of the Acanthaceae family.

Siproeta stelenes

Females lay eggs on the new leaves of plants in the Acanthaceae family, especially ruellia.

Thunbergia alata

Thunbergia alata, commonly called Black-eyed Susan vine, is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant species in the Acanthaceae family.

Wisteria

An aquatic flowering plant with the common name wisteria or 'water wisteria' is in fact Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae.


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Peristrophe roxburghiana

; also called magenta plant, or lá cẩm in Vietnamese) is a flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to southeastern Asia from Assam south to Sri Lanka and east to mainland Southeast Asia, Java, southern China, and Taiwan.

Tetramer

Tetramerium, a genus of plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae


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