Aphelandra schiedeana

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Acanthaceae

The Acanthaceae are mostly herbs or shrubs comprising about 250 genera and 2,500 species, including twining forms. The leaves are simple , opposite and decussate; stipules are lacking. The flowers are bisexual , zygomorphic, and usually are associated with conspicuous , often brightly colored bracts. The calyx is usually deeply 4-5 lobed or sometimes is highly reduced with more numerous minute teeth. The corolla is sympetalous , usually 5-merous, mostly zygomorphic, and commonly 2 lipped. The androecium usually consists of 4 didynamous stamens or only 2 stamens adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes . The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 carpels, a single style, and a superior ovary with 2 locules, each with usually 2-10 axile ovules in one or two collateral vertical tiers . An annular nectary disk is usually found around the base of the ovary. The fruit is commonly an elastically dehiscent loculicidal capsule. The seed stalk or funiculus of each seed is modified into a hook shaped jaculator or retinaculum that functions in flinging out the seeds during dehiscence. -- Gerald Carr.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,879 meters (0 to 6,165 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lagochilium Schiedeanum

Notes

Publishing author : Schltdl. & Cham. Publication : Linnaea 5: 95 (-96) 1830

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aphelandra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. aurantiaca (Fiery Spike) · A. aurantiaca var. roezlii (Fiery Spike) · A. mirabilis (Two-Coloured Balm Plant) · A. sinclairiana (Coral Aphelandra) · A. squarrosa (Zebra Plant) · A. tetragona (Red Aphelandra)

More Info

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Further Reading

• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 23 2001 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 119, p. 137.
• Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley, Louis O. Williams, Dorothy Nash Gibson. 24 1974 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. url p. 336.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 235, p. 236, p. 238, p. 239, p. 240, p. 243, p. 244, p. 257, p. 266, p. 269, p. 270, p. 272.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 1336.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 28, 2007:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, MEXU/Plantas Vasculares

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8856021
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:45605-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 45605-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1119667

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,081.120 meters (3,546.982 feet), Standard Deviation = 492.220 based on 40 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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