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Taxon: Cuphea ignea A. DC.

Genus: Cuphea
Family: Lythraceae.
Nomen number: 12633
Place of publication: Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 5: t. 500c. 1849
Name verified on: 13-Feb-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Nov-2006
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 8 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • cigar-flower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • cigar-flower-plant   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  • firecracker-plant   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • cúfea   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • chispa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • cigarro-aceso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • flor-de-Santo-Antônio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Central Mexico: Mexico - Oaxaca, Veracruz
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Mexico - Chiapas

References:

  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt) [mentions].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Cuphea ignea A. DC.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Cuphea ignea cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12633 (09 February 2010)

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