Species of plant
Justicia spicigera
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Mexican honeysuckle: Justicia spicigera
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Plantae
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Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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Clade:
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Angiosperms
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Clade:
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Eudicots
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Clade:
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Asterids
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Order:
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Lamiales
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Family:
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Acanthaceae
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Genus:
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Justicia
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Species:
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J. spicigera
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Binomial name
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Justicia spicigera
Schltdl. (1832)
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Synonyms[1]
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- Aphelandra ghiesbreghtiana (Lem.) Lem. (1848)
- Cyrtanthera ghiesbreghtiana (Lem.) Decne. (1848)
- Drejera willdenowiana Nees (1847)
- Jacobinia atramentaria (Benth.) S.F.Blake (1917)
- Jacobinia ghiesbreghtiana (Lem.) Benth. & Hook.f. (1876)
- Jacobinia mohintli Hemsl. (1882), nom. superfl.
- Jacobinia neglecta A.Gray (1878)
- Jacobinia scarlatina S.F.Blake (1917)
- Jacobinia spicigera (Schltdl.) L.H.Bailey (1915)
- Justicia atramentaria Benth. (1840)
- Justicia ghiesbreghtiana Lem. (1847)
- Justicia ghiesbreghtii Lem. (1848), orth. var.
- Justicia liebmanii V.A.W.Graham (1988)
- Justicia mohintli Moc. & Sessé ex Nees (1847), pro syn.
- Justicia scarlatina (S.F.Blake) V.A.W.Graham (1988)
- Sericographis ghiesbreghtiana (Lem.) Nees (1847)
- Sericographis neglecta Oerst. (1855)
- Sericographis mohintli Nees (1847), nom. superfl.
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Justicia spicigera (Mexican honeysuckle, firecracker bush, moyotle, moyotli, mohintli, muicle, trompetilla, yaxan,[2] or ych-kaan in Mayan) is an evergreen shrub with tubular orange flowers.[3] The species is native to the Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Honduras, and Mexico.
- ^ Justicia spicigera Schltdl. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Justicia spicigera - Useful Tropical Plants". tropical.theferns.info. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Justicia spicigera: University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension