Acanthus Family
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae () is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in temperate regions. The four main centres of distribution are Indonesia and Malaysia, Africa, Brazil, and Central America. Representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, scrublands, wet fields and valleys, sea coast and marine areas, swamps, and mangrove forests.
28 branches of this family, most-observed first
Acanthoideae
subfamilyAcanthoideae
Thunbergioideae
subfamilyThunbergioideae
Avicennioideae
subfamilyAvicennioideae
Nelsonioideae
subfamilyNelsonioideae
Hemigraphis
genusHemigraphis
Dipteracanthus
genusDipteracanthus
Siphonoglossa
genusSiphonoglossa
Stenandriopsis
genusStenandriopsis
Nicoteba
genusNicoteba
Aphanandrium
genusAphanandrium
Rhaphidospora
genusRhaphidospora
Ritonia
genusRitonia
Zygoruellia
genusZygoruellia
Conocalyx
genusConocalyx
Monechma
genusMonechma
Dyschoriste hispidula
speciesDyschoriste hispidula
Psiloesthes
genusPsiloesthes
Polylychnis
genusPolylychnis
Pseudacanthopale
genusPseudacanthopale
Tabascina
genusTabascina
Morsacanthus
genusMorsacanthus
Liberatia
genusLiberatia
Symplectochilus
genusSymplectochilus
Stachyacanthus
genusStachyacanthus
Cuenotia
genusCuenotia
Gymnophragma
genusGymnophragma
Xantheranthemum
genusXantheranthemum
Teliostachya
genusTeliostachya
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 50151.