Rhodochiton nubicola | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Plantaginaceae |
Genus: | Rhodochiton |
Species: | R. nubicola
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Binomial name | |
Rhodochiton nubicola (Elisens) D.A.Sutton
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Synonyms [1] | |
Lophospermum nubicola Elisens |
Rhodochiton nubicola is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial native to the state of Chiapas in Mexico and to Guatemala, where it grows in cloud forests at between 1,300 and 3,000 m (4,300 and 9,800 ft). It has dangling flowers, with a bell-shaped calyx and dark purple petals forming a tube. Unlike the better known Rhodochiton atrosanguineus, the petal tube is asymmetrical with two "lips". [2]
The species was first described by Wayne J. Elisens in 1985. [2] The specific epithet nubicola is a noun derived from Latin nubes, cloud, and -cola, dweller, thus meaning "cloud dweller". [3] It was transferred from the genus Lophospermum to Rhodochiton by David A. Sutton in 1988. [1]
Rhodochiton nubicola | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Plantaginaceae |
Genus: | Rhodochiton |
Species: | R. nubicola
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Binomial name | |
Rhodochiton nubicola (Elisens) D.A.Sutton
[1]
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Synonyms [1] | |
Lophospermum nubicola Elisens |
Rhodochiton nubicola is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial native to the state of Chiapas in Mexico and to Guatemala, where it grows in cloud forests at between 1,300 and 3,000 m (4,300 and 9,800 ft). It has dangling flowers, with a bell-shaped calyx and dark purple petals forming a tube. Unlike the better known Rhodochiton atrosanguineus, the petal tube is asymmetrical with two "lips". [2]
The species was first described by Wayne J. Elisens in 1985. [2] The specific epithet nubicola is a noun derived from Latin nubes, cloud, and -cola, dweller, thus meaning "cloud dweller". [3] It was transferred from the genus Lophospermum to Rhodochiton by David A. Sutton in 1988. [1]