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Strobilanthes maculata (Wall.) Nees

Acanthaceae · Assam

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Strobilanthes maculata, photograph Mokkie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsStrobilanthes maculata, photograph Mokkie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsStrobilanthes maculata, photograph Dinkum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 4 photographs ›

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

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Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeAssam · 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).
Kew's description“shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Mokkie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Dinkum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Other Strobilanthes 32 in the reference

Strobilanthes alternata Strobilanthes alternata Red ivy Photo: CC BY, kumarkvStrobilanthes 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 all 33 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Sympagis maculata; Ruellia maculata; Ruellia variegata. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
(Wall.) Nees
Native to
Assam
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Strobilanthes maculata (Wall.) Nees (plant_name_id 2476687), 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
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences 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
Habitat climate climate 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, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 55799-1, POWO 55799-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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