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Pachystachys

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Pachystachys

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Pachystachys is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to rainforest in the Caribbean and Central and South America. They are evergreen perennials and shrubs bearing prominent terminal spikes of flowers with brightly coloured bracts.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderLamiales
  5. FamilyAcanthaceae
Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador
Observations recorded5,875

Pachystachys es un género de fanerógamas perteneciente a la familia Acanthaceae. El género tiene especies herbáceas, distribuidas en las regiones tropicales de América, principalmente en Brasil, Perú y Centroamérica.​

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
87
With media
50
Family
Acanthaceae
Collections
IBUNAM, NY, FSL, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), MO, UEFS
Recorded in
Trinidad Y Tobago, Brazil, Peru, Brasil
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Acanthaceae
Image
Pachystachys spicata.jpg
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Commons category
Pachystachys
taxon name
Pachystachys
taxon rank
genus
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=8744
topic's main category
Category:Pachystachys
taxon common name
金苞花属
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Encyclopedic overview

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Pachystachys is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to rainforest in the Caribbean and Central and South America. They are evergreen perennials and shrubs bearing prominent terminal spikes of flowers with brightly coloured bracts.

The name Pachystachys comes from the Greek for "thick spike", referring to the flower heads. The genus is closely related to Justicia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pachystachys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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