Common name
English: Shrimp Plant
German: Zimmerhopfen
Portuguese: Flor-camarão
English: Shrimp Plant
German: Zimmerhopfen
Portuguese: Flor-camarão
Kingdom: Plantae (2635)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2573)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2146)
Order: Scrophulariales (94)
Family: Acanthaceae (25)(family description)
Genus: Justicia (3)
Epithet: brandegeana Wassh. & L.B.Sm. (1)
brandegeana => in honor of Townshend Stith Brandegee (1843-1925), US botanist, Civil Engineer, and surveyor
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb
Flower colour: white