AcanthaceaeSubfamily Acanthoideae
Subfamily Avicennioideae
Subfamily Thunbergioideae
W/C = Wild Collected |
Hemigraphis alternata (Burm.f.) T. Anderson
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Red Ivy, Red Flame Ivy
- Family: Acanthaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Malay Archipelago
- Habitat:
- Description: [syn. Hemigraphis colorata (Blume) H.G. Hallier]
Prostrate, rooting perennial; leaves ovate-cordate, to 3 inches long, toothed, bullate, purplish beneath, gray above; corolla white, 1/2 - 3/4 inches long, pollen apparently sterile; fruit never produced. Nativity uncertain, but probably eastern part of the Malay Archipelago.
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Accession Data:- Accession # 198700127
- Source: SCE/Wellesley
- Accession Date: 12-31-1987
- Bench: 1215 - AUS:Phillipines-Polynesia C
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 09-11-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: euasterid I
- Order: Lamiales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Acanthaceae
- SubFamily: Acanthoideae
- Tribe:
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References:Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
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