Hypoestes phyllostachya
Polkadot-plant


Hypoestes phyllostachya
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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, pero de origen específico incierto; reportada como nativa de Asia; o de las islas del Océano Índico (Madagascar); ampliamente cultivada y a veces naturalizada.
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Native to the Old World, but specific origin uncertain; reported as native to Asia; or to Indian Ocean islands (Madagascar); widely cultivated and sometimes naturalized. 

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Notas/Notes: 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 (1997 [5: 31]), 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: Hypoestes phyllostachya Baker





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