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Strobilanthes alternata (Burm.f.) Moylan ex J.R.I.Wood

Red ivy; Crimson Ivy

Acanthaceae · Maluku

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Strobilanthes alternata (Burm.f.) Moylan ex J.R.I.Wood: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Burm.fil.) Moylan ex J.R.I.Wood.

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Strobilanthes alternata, photograph (c) kumarkv, some rights reserved (CC BY)Strobilanthes alternata, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedStrobilanthes alternata, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedStrobilanthes alternata, photograph (c) Robert Hoard, some rights reserved (CC BY)Strobilanthes alternata, photograph (c) Prashanth N S, some rights reserved (CC BY)Strobilanthes alternata, photograph (c) naturewatchwidow, some rights reserved (CC BY) 27 photographs ›

Summary

Strobilanthes alternata (synonym Hemigraphis alternata), may be known as red ivy, red-flame ivy, or waffle plant, is a member of the family Acanthaceae native to Java. It is a prostrate plant with purple colored leaves.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Strobilanthes alternata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Strobilanthes

Strobilanthes is a genus of about 350 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, mostly native to tropical Asia and Madagascar, but with a few species extending north into temperate regions of Asia. Many species are cultivated for their two-lipped, hooded flowers in shades of blue, pink, white and purple. Most are frost-tender and require protection in frost-prone areas. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 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.
NativeMaluku · introduced: Benin, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is., Cook Is., Marquesas, Society Is., Caroline Is., Marianas, Hawaii, Florida, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, 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 marker0.483, 127.969 · in the densest population, 5 records (83% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 173 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 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 6 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: (c) kumarkv, some rights reserved (CC BY); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Robert Hoard, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Prashanth N S, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) naturewatchwidow, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Strobilanthes 32 in the reference

Strobilanthes anisophylla Strobilanthes anisophylla Goldfussia Photo: CC BY, Todd HuangStrobilanthes atropurpurea Strobilanthes atropurpurea Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Ramnarayan KStrobilanthes attenuata Strobilanthes attenuata Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh ValkeStrobilanthes auriculata Strobilanthes auriculata Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Ricci MaseroStrobilanthes callosa Strobilanthes callosa Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh ValkeStrobilanthes crispa Strobilanthes crispa Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Franz AnthonyStrobilanthes cusia Strobilanthes cusia Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好Strobilanthes cystolithigera Strobilanthes cystolithigera Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Strobilanthes dimorphotricha Acanthaceae Strobilanthes flexicaulis Strobilanthes flexicaulis Acanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedStrobilanthes formosana Strobilanthes formosana Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好 Strobilanthes glaucescens Acanthaceae all 33 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Blechum cordatum; Goldfussia colorata; Hemigraphis alternata; Hemigraphis colorata; Ruellia alternata and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
(Burm.f.) Moylan ex J.R.I.Wood
Native to
Maluku
Wild records
6 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 8297383 is Strobilanthes alternata (Burm.fil.) Moylan ex J.R.I.Wood; the page links Kew's Strobilanthes alternata (Burm.f.) Moylan ex J.R.I.Wood, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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; 18 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (14 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 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 53 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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