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Aphelandra arborea (Mill.) M.R.Almeida

Acanthaceae · Venezuela · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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About the genus · Aphelandra

Aphelandra is a genus of over 200 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aphelandra", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Aphelandra in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “subshrub or shrub”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Aphelandra in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “subshrub or shrub”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 13 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 13 of the 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVenezuela · introduced: Assam, Bangladesh, Marianas, Cuba, Trinidad-Tobago · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker10.1, -67.1 · in the densest population, 9 records (69% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 13 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 12 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 10 km away. 14 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 13 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Aphelandra 12 in the reference

Aphelandra aurantiaca Aphelandra aurantiaca Fiery spike Photo: CC0, author not statedAphelandra chamissoniana Aphelandra chamissoniana Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaAphelandra flava Aphelandra flava Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Frank DietzeAphelandra hartwegiana Aphelandra hartwegiana Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. StangAphelandra liboniana Aphelandra liboniana Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens Riella Aphelandra maculata Acanthaceae Aphelandra ornata Aphelandra ornata Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozAphelandra pulcherrima Aphelandra pulcherrima Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Paul PriorAphelandra scabra Aphelandra scabra Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández Aphelandra schiedeana Acanthaceae Aphelandra sinclairiana Aphelandra sinclairiana Sinclair's aphelandra Photo: CC0, author not statedAphelandra squarrosa Aphelandra squarrosa Zebra-plant Photo: CC BY, Pablo Cauã da Silva Toledo

Names & registers

Also known as Aphelandra cristata; Aphelandra imperialis; Aphelandra tetragona; Aphelandra tetragona var. grandis; Aphelandra tetragona var. imperialis and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Aphelandra pulcherrima Willd. and Aphelandra pulcherrima Willd. ex Nees is an older name of this species, not Aphelandra pulcherrima, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
(Mill.) M.R.Almeida
Native to
Venezuela
Wild records
13 in range · 12 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2113 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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