Rhodochiton nubicola

Rhodochiton nubicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Lamiales
Family:Plantaginaceae
Genus:Rhodochiton
Species: R. nubicola
Binomial name
Rhodochiton nubicola
(Elisens) D.A.Sutton[1]
Synonyms[1]

Lophospermum nubicola Elisens

Rhodochiton nubicola is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial native to the state of Chiapas in Mexico and to Guatemala, where it grows in cloud forests at between 1,300 and 3,000 m (4,300 and 9,800 ft). It has dangling flowers, with a bell-shaped calyx and dark purple petals forming a tube. Unlike the better known Rhodochiton atrosanguineus, the petal tube is asymmetrical with two "lips".[2]

The species was first described by Wayne J. Elisens in 1985.[2] The specific epithet nubicola is a noun derived from Latin nubes, cloud, and -(i)cola, dweller, thus meaning "cloud dweller".[3] It was transferred from the genus Lophospermum to Rhodochiton by David A. Sutton in 1988.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rhodochiton nubicola (Elisens) D.A. Sutton", Tropicos.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, retrieved 2014-08-18
  2. 1 2 Elisens, Wayne J. (1985), "Monograph of the Maurandyinae (Scrophulariaceae-Antirrhineae)", Systematic Botany Monographs, 5: 1–97, doi:10.2307/25027602, JSTOR 25027602
  3. ↑ Stearn, W.T. (2004), Botanical Latin (4th (p/b) ed.), Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, pp. 200 & 387, ISBN 978-0-7153-1643-6


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