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Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard

Acanthaceae · Florida

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Justicia cooleyi is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae known by the common name Cooley's water-willow. It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where it occurs in three counties. It is a federally listed endangered species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Justicia cooleyi", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 10 of the 12 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.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3173072 (Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard, 16 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeFlorida · 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 marker28.63, -82.34 · in the densest population, 11 records (92% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 6 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 10 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3173072 (Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard): Kew's file holds it as Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard (accepted); 16 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 12 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Justicia 36 in the reference

Justicia aconitiflora Justicia aconitiflora Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Elena_SherehoraJusticia adhatoda Justicia adhatoda Malabar nut Photo: CC BY-SA, Manoj KaringamadathilJusticia adhatodoides Justicia adhatodoides Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Margaret BurgerJusticia aequilabris Justicia aequilabris Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Carlos HenriqueJusticia amplifolia Justicia amplifolia Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Oscar Alejandro Morales JuárezJusticia aurea Justicia aurea Orange Flame Justicia Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezJusticia boliviensis Justicia boliviensis Acanthaceae Photo: CC0, Alfredo F. Fuentes ClarosJusticia brandegeeana Justicia brandegeeana Shrimp plant Photo: CC BY, Vreni Gem O. CaasiJusticia brasiliana Justicia brasiliana Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolas OlejnikJusticia californica Justicia californica Beloperone Photo: CC BY, Dan VickersJusticia campylostemon Justicia campylostemon Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Bernard DUPONTJusticia capensis Justicia capensis Cape Justice Photo: CC BY-SA, alanbedfordshaw all 37 ›

Names & registers

IPNIPOWOWikidataWFOWikipedia

The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
Monach. & Leonard
Native to
Florida
Wild records
12 in range · 6 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 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard (plant_name_id 2330766), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 16 records of GBIF's key 3173072, Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard (Kew's file holds it as Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard (accepted)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 132853-2, POWO 132853-2
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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