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Internal ID UUID643ffcdf1505c603792219
Scientific name Heliconia caribaea
Authority Lam.
First published in Encycl. 1: 426 (1785)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Bihai borinquena Griggs Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 445 (1904)
Bihai borinquena var. coccinea Griggs & Harris Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42: 324 (1915)
Bihai conferta Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 685 (1891)
Bihai luteofusca Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 684 (1891)
Heliconia borinquena Griggs Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 658, pl. 29, fig. 2. 1903
Heliconia conferta Petersen Fl. Bras. 3(3): 13 (1890)
Heliconia luteofusca Jacq. Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 1: 25 (1797)

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English lobsterclaw

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  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000437264
USDA Plants HECA10
Tropicos 21500047
INPN 447816
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:796933-1
The Plant List kew-248339
Open Tree Of Life 54926
NCBI Taxonomy 446147
IPNI 796933-1
iNaturalist 123795
GBIF 2760924
EPPO HEBCA
EOL 1118059
USDA GRIN 405271

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_982345425.1 Heliconia_caribea_v1 Scaffold DTU Bioengineering 2026-04-09 10 380.65 Mb

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Ecological fitting is a sufficient driver of tight interactions between sunbirds and ornithophilous plants Janeček Š, Chmel K, Uceda Gómez G, Janečková P, Chmelová E, Sejfová Z, Luma Ewome F Ecol Evol 05-Feb-2020
PMCID:PMC7042734
doi:10.1002/ece3.5942
PMID:32128116
Ijuhya vitellina sp. nov., a novel source for chaetoglobosin A, is a destructive parasite of the cereal cyst nematode Heterodera filipjevi Ashrafi S, Helaly S, Schroers HJ, Stadler M, Richert-Poeggeler KR, Dababat AA, Maier W PLoS One 12-Jul-2017
PMCID:PMC5507501
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180032
PMID:28700638
Pollinator Competition as a Driver of Floral Divergence: An Experimental Test Temeles EJ, Newman JT, Newman JH, Cho SY, Mazzotta AR, Kress WJ PLoS One 27-Jan-2016
PMCID:PMC4729399
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146431
PMID:26814810
Loss of YABBY2-Like Gene Expression May Underlie the Evolution of the Laminar Style in Canna and Contribute to Floral Morphological Diversity in the Zingiberales Morioka K, Yockteng R, Almeida AM, Specht CD Front Plant Sci 16-Dec-2015
PMCID:PMC4679924
doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.01106
PMID:26734021
Cercosporoid fungi (Mycosphaerellaceae) 2. Species on monocots (Acoraceae to Xyridaceae, excluding Poaceae) Braun U, Crous PW, Nakashima C IMA Fungus 25-Nov-2014
PMCID:PMC4329321
doi:10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.04
PMID:25734029
Evolution of sexual dimorphism in bill size and shape of hermit hummingbirds (Phaethornithinae): a role for ecological causation Temeles EJ, Miller JS, Rifkin JL Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 12-Apr-2010
PMCID:PMC2830232
doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0284
PMID:20194168
Mate choice and mate competition by a tropical hummingbird at a floral resource Temeles EJ, Kress WJ Proc Biol Sci 03-Feb-2010
PMCID:PMC2871841
doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.2188
PMID:20129990

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