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Nelsonia
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Nelsonia

Nelsonia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. They can be found in tropical: Africa (including Madagascar), Latin America, south-east Asia and Australia.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

blue pussyleaf

speciesNelsonia canescens

Nelsonia smithii

speciesNelsonia smithii

Nelsonia gracilis

speciesNelsonia gracilis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 347391.