R. Aguinda

Creator(s):
  • Field Museum of Natural History - Keller Science Action Center
  • R. B. Foster : Field Museum of Natural History - Action Center
Creator role(s):
  • Creator
  • Photographer
  • Justicia
    Creator: Field Museum of Natural History - Keller Science Action Center
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Justicia
  • Neotropical Live Plant Photo | ACAN-just--ecu-21122 | Rapid Inventory 3
    Photographer: R. B. Foster : Field Museum of Natural History - Action Center
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Neotropical Live Plant Photo | ACAN-just--ecu-21122 | Rapid Inventory 3
Current Determination: Justicia plowmanii Wassh.
Family: Acanthaceae
Det. by: N. Hensold : Field Museum of Natural History - Action Center, 2023
Identification notes: Inflorescence glabrous and bracts more green-membranous, flowers mostly solitary at nodes; otherwise similar
Location: Ecuador: Sucumbios
Locality: Eastern slopes of the Andes, ca. 10 km south of the Ecuador-Colombia border, nar
Coordinates: 0.3039 -77.4089
Elevation: 1000
Habitat/Microhabitat: Foothills of the Andes near the Colombian border. Upper hill forest on clay soils. Ridges & steep slopes.
Additional data: Herb, 1 m; flowers mostly purple.

Collector(s): R. Aguinda
Collection Date: 28 July 2001
Catalog Subset: Seed Plants
Catalog Project: Rapid Reference Collection, Rapid Inventory Plants
EMu IRN: 298882
OccurenceID: 88f94a48-7044-4695-a4f8-0c9d471b755f

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