Hemigraphis alternata
Asia negra


Hemigraphis alternata

Família/Family: Acanthaceae

Grupo/Group: Dicotiledónea/Dicotyledon.

Forma de vida/Life form: Hierba/Herb

Duración de vida/Lifespan: Perenne/Perennial.

Sustrato/Substrate: Terrestre/Terrestrial.

Distribución nativa/Native range: Nativa del Viejo Mundo (Asia); ampliamente cultivada y algunas veces naturalizada. / Native to the Old World (Asia); widely cultivated and sometimes naturalized.

Mapa de ubicaciones / Map of locations

Notas/Notes: For images, click on the Flora of the West Indies link below.

A voucher of a naturalized population in Puerto Rico is apparently needed.


ESTATUS EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO/STATUS ON THE ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO
Presencia/Occurence: Presente/Present.

Origen/Origin: No nativo, naturalizado/Not native, naturalized.

Historia y distribución/History and distribution: Cited by Liogier & Martorell (1982), Liogier (1997 [5: 28]), and Liogier & Martorell (2000) as escaped from cultivation, but rejected as naturalized by Axelrod (2011). However, cited as naturalized in Puerto Rico in the Flora of the West Indies (Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong 2015).

TAXONOMÍA/TAXONOMY
Nombre científico con autores/Scientific name with authors: Hemigraphis alternata (Burm. f.) T. Anderson

Sinónimos/Synonyms: Hemigraphis colorata (Blume) Hallier, Ruellia colorata Blume.




ENLACES A PAGINAS EXTERNAS/LINKS TO EXTERNAL WEBSITES

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

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Hemigraphis alternata