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Cyrtandra cleopatrae
About
Cyrtandra cleopatrae is a species of plant in the family Gesneriaceae endemic to the Philippines. It is a tropical shrub having recaulescent inflorescences composed of multiple purpled flowers that emerge on the plant stem from stubby shoots. It was first collected for science during a 1998 expedition sponsored by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, from a location in Palawan called Cleopatra's Needle (elev. 1550m), thus the specific epithet "cleopatrae". The taxon was first published in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany in 2001.
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Cyrtandra cleopatrae
- Slug
- cyrtandra-cleopatrae
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
- Genus
- Cyrtandra
- Species
- cleopatrae
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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