Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Upper surface of leaves; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Lower surface of leaves; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Identifier: 1131
Date of entry: 26.07.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020
Kingdom: Plantae (2713)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2628)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2216)
Order: Scrophulariales (81)
Family: Acanthaceae (25)(family description)
Genus: Strobilanthes (2)
Epithet: wallichii Nees (4)
Synonym: Pteracanthus alatus (Nees) Bremek.
alatus => winged, with wings
wallichii => in honor of Dr. Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish surgeon and botanist who worked in India
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: blue, white