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Odontonema schomburgkianum (Nees) Kuntze

Acanthaceae · Guyana

No habitat climate

Summary

Odontonema schomburgkianum, Schomburgk's fountain plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Guyana. A perennial shrub with red flowers borne on pendant racemes, it is occasionally available from specialty greenhouses.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Odontonema schomburgkianum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Odontonema

Odontonema, the toothedthreads or firespikes, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 32 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico to Peru and southeastern Brazil.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 18 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 18 of the 18 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.

NativeGuyana · 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 marker5.2, -59.45 · in the densest population, 18 records (100% of those in range)

Kew's description“wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 18 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 18 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 18 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Odontonema 3 in the reference

Odontonema callistachyum Firespike Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández

Odontonema cuspidatum Mottled toothedthread Photo: CC BY, Harrison Cole

Odontonema tubaeforme Firespike Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Odontonema macrophyllum; Thyrsacanthus schomburgkianus. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIF POWO IPNI WFO Wikidata Wikipedia

The record

Family

Acanthaceae

Described by

(Nees) Kuntze

Native to

Guyana

Wild records

18 in range · 18 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

GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22

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

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2218 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22

Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22

iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked

iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked

GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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.