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Acanthus Family

Acanthaceae

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Elytraria imbricata (purple scalystem); Elytraria (scalystem); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Ruellia chartacea (Peruvian wild petunia); Ruellia (wild petunia); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Lepidagathis mitis; Lepidagathis; Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Image of Ruellia hapalotricha Lindau
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Ruellia hapalotricha; Ruellia (wild petunia); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Image of Hygrophila serpyllum (Nees) T. Anderson
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Hygrophila serpyllum; Hygrophila (swampweed); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Hygrophila serpyllum; Hygrophila (swampweed); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Avicennia (black mangrove); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Avicennia (black mangrove); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Avicennia (black mangrove); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Image of Justicia gendarussa Burm. fil.
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Justicia gendarussa; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia gendarussa; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia gendarussa; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia gendarussa; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia gendarussa; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Graptophyllum excelsum; Graptophyllum (graptophyllum); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Image of Ruellia angustior (Nees) Lindau
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Ruellia angustior; Ruellia (wild petunia); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Ruellia angustior; Ruellia (wild petunia); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Ruellia angustior; Ruellia (wild petunia); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia brasiliana; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Aphelandra scabra; Aphelandra; Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia sarothroides; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia sarothroides; Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Thunbergia battiscombei; Thunbergia (thunbergia); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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Justicia longii (longflower tube tongue); Justicia (water-willow); Acanthaceae (acanthus family); Lamiales ("An Order: Mints, Vervains, Snapdragons, Etc."); Asterids; Superasterids; Eudicots; Embryophytes; Tracheophyta (ferns); Streptophyta; Angiosperms (Dicotyledons); Spermatophytes (seed plants); Archaeplastida (plants); Chloroplastida (green plants); Cellular (cellular organisms); Life (creatures); Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
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    David Bygott   Flickr Group
    Arizona, United States
  • Image of Peruvian wild petunia
    Dick Culbert   Flickr Group
    This species, which uses red leaves as well as petals, is mainly at home in the Amazon basin, but is here at Cotacocha Lodge on the upper Rio Napo. I
  • Image of Lepidagathis mitis Dalz.
    Lalithamba   Flickr Group
    Family: AcanthaceaeDistribution:Common on dry gravelly hard soils and rock crevices.Limited to Peninsular India.Suffrutescent herbs with perennial root stock and radially spreading branches; Leaves 3x1 cm linear-oblong, subacute,subsessile. Flowers 1-1.5am long white or pale pink, spotted with purple. Flower heads globose, denser, wooly and spiny.Spikes crowded at the base of the stem.Bracts and calyx lobes shortly spinous-mucronate; bracts broad, corolla lobes cyllindric below, suddenly expandedand 2 lipped,upper lip erect, 2lobed, lower 3 lobed, spotted, stamens 4 didynamous, disk annular, ovary 2 celled, stigma shortly 2 lobed, fruit a capsule.Reference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao
  • Image of Ruellia hapalotricha Lindau
    Ruellia hapalotricha
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    Mauricio Mercadante   Flickr Group
    Ruellia hapalotricha LindauACANTHACEAELocal: Parque Ecolgico Dom Bosco, Braslia, Brasil.Ref.: Vilar, T.S. Acanthaceae Juss. no Distrito Federal, Brasil. UnB, 2009.
  • Image of Hygrophila serpyllum (Nees) T. Anderson
    satish nikam   Flickr Group
    Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
  • Image of Hygrophila serpyllum (Nees) T. Anderson
    satish nikam   Flickr Group
    Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
  • Image of black mangrove
    Bill & Mark Bell   Flickr Group
    Kingdom=Plantaeunranked=Angiospermsunranked=Eudicotsunranked=AsteridsOrder=LamialesFamily=AcanthaceaeGenus=AvicenniaSpecies=marina?Binomial name=Avicennia marina?Common name=Grey mangrove?
  • Image of black mangrove
    Bill & Mark Bell   Flickr Group
    Kingdom=Plantaeunranked=Angiospermsunranked=Eudicotsunranked=AsteridsOrder=LamialesFamily=AcanthaceaeGenus=AvicenniaSpecies=marina?Binomial name=Avicennia marina?Common name=Grey mangrove?
  • Image of black mangrove
    Bill & Mark Bell   Flickr Group
    Kingdom=Plantaeunranked=Angiospermsunranked=Eudicotsunranked=AsteridsOrder=LamialesFamily=AcanthaceaeGenus=AvicenniaSpecies=marina?Binomial name=Avicennia marina?Common name=Grey mangrove?
  • Image of Justicia gendarussa Burm. fil.
    Ahmad Fuad Morad   Flickr Group
    Mom Che Puteh's Garden, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.Justicia gendarussa Burm. f. Acanthaceae. CN: [Malay - Gandarusa, Daun rusa], Native of China but has naturalized in Western Indian Ocean island nations (Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles), Indian subcontinent, Malesia bio-geographic region. Sought after by traditional healers and normally used either as poultices or decoction for the treatment of sprains and broken bones. Plant can be found growing wild and cultivated.
  • Image of Justicia gendarussa Burm. fil.
    satish nikam   Flickr Group
    Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
  • Image of Justicia gendarussa Burm. fil.
    satish nikam   Flickr Group
    Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
  • Image of Justicia gendarussa Burm. fil.
    Gandarusa
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    Jayesh Patil   Flickr Group
    A flower of Justicia gendarussa from Acanthaceae.
  • Image of Justicia gendarussa Burm. fil.
    Ahmad Fuad Morad   Flickr Group
    Mom Che Puteh's Garden, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.Justicia gendarussa Burm. f. Acanthaceae. CN: [Malay - Gandarusa, Daun rusa], Native of China but has naturalized in Western Indian Ocean island nations (Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles), Indian subcontinent, Malesia bio-geography region. Sought after by traditional healers and normally used either as poultices or decoction for the treatment of sprains and broken bones. Plant can be found growing wild and cultivated.
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    Arthur Chapman   Flickr Group
    Scsarlet Fuschia (Graptophyllum excelsum) cultivated in a Townsville garden, Queensland, Australia. Photographed on 18 September 1972.Digitised from a slide. The original slide, which is of higher quality, is held.
  • Image of Ruellia angustior (Nees) Lindau
    Ruellia angustior
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    Mauricio Mercadante   Flickr Group
    Ruellia angustior LindauACANTHACEAELocal: Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, Alto Paraso, Gois, Brasil.Ref.: Herbrio Virtual Reflora
  • Image of Ruellia angustior (Nees) Lindau
    Ruellia angustior
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    Mauricio Mercadante   Flickr Group
    Ruellia angustior LindauACANTHACEAELocal: Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, Alto Paraso, Gois, Brasil.Ref.: Herbrio Virtual Reflora
  • Image of Ruellia angustior (Nees) Lindau
    Ruellia angustior
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    Mauricio Mercadante   Flickr Group
    Ruellia angustior LindauACANTHACEAELocal: Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, Alto Paraso, Gois, Brasil.Ref.: Herbrio Virtual Reflora
  • Image of Justicia brasiliana Roth
    Dick Culbert   Flickr Group
    An unusual form of Justicia, some would claim it should be called Beloperone amherstiae. Native to the southernmost Neotropics. Photo from near the Argentina-Brazil border.
  • Image of Aphelandra scabra (Vahl) Sm.
    Dick Culbert   Flickr Group
    Santa Ana, Managua, Nicaragua
  • Image of Justicia sarothroides Lindau
    Justicia sarothroides
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    Mauricio Mercadante   Flickr Group
    Justicia sarothroides LindauACANTHACEAE Local: Lago Sul, Braslia, BrasilRef.: Vilar, T.S. Acanthaceae Juss. no Distrito Federal, Brasil. UnB, 2009.
  • Image of Justicia sarothroides Lindau
    Justicia sarothroides
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    Mauricio Mercadante   Flickr Group
    Justicia sarothroides LindauACANTHACEAE Local: Lago Sul, Braslia, BrasilRef.: Vilar, T.S. Acanthaceae Juss. no Distrito Federal, Brasil. UnB, 2009.
  • Image of Thunbergia battiscombei Turrill
    Dick Culbert   Flickr Group
    Alto Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama
  • Image of longflower tube tongue
    Justicia longii
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    Anthony Mendoza   Flickr Group
    Blacketts Ridge, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, Sept 9, 2011
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