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Taxon: Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl.

Genus: Thunbergia
Family: Acanthaceae subfamily: Thunbergioideae. Also placed in: Thunbergiaceae
Nomen number: 36609
Place of publication: Gard. Chron. 1856:260. 1856
Name verified on: 09-Jun-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-Jun-2006
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • babbler's-vine   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  • malayische Thunbergie   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Guangdong
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indo-China: Indochina
    Malesia: Malaysia

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere in tropics

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Meyer, J.-Y. & C. Lavergne. 2004. Beautés fatales: Acanthaceae species as invasive alien plants on tropical Indo-Pacific islands. Diversity & Distributions (Divers Distr) 10:333–347.
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Check other databases for Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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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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?36609 (09 February 2010)

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