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Internal ID UUID643ff42eaceab158137903
Scientific name Commelina purpurea
Authority C.B.Clarke
First published in Fl. Trop. Afr. 8: 40 (1901)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Commelina kabarensis De Wild. Pl. Bequaert. 5: 184 (1931)
Commelina lugardii Bullock Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 506 (1932)

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Arabic وعلان أرجواني
Chinese 紫鸭跖草

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Sudan
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Congo
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000360554
Tropicos 8300764
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:172280-1
The Plant List kew-234131
Open Tree Of Life 625860
NCBI Taxonomy 428236
IPNI 172280-1
GBIF 2764108
EOL 1122681

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A Comparison of Photoprotective Mechanism in Different Light-Demanding Plants Under Dynamic Light Conditions Shuang SP, Zhang JY, Cun Z, Wu HM, Hong J, Chen JW Front Plant Sci 06-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9019478
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.819843
PMID:35463455

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