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Internal ID UUID643ffcebacfcd593341042
Scientific name Heliconia hirsuta
Authority L.f.
First published in Suppl. Pl. : 158 (1782)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Bihai harrisiana Griggs Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42: 328 (1915)
Bihai hirsuta Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 684 (1891)
Bihai straminea Griggs Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42: 327 (1915)
Heliconia burle-marxii Emygdio Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, Bot. , n.s., 16: 1 (1957)
Heliconia cannoidea var. villosa Petersen Fl. Bras. 3(3): 23 (1890)
Heliconia cararensis Abalo & G.Morales Phytologia 51(1): 20. 1982
Heliconia cardenasii L.B.Sm. Contr. Gray Herb. 124: 5 (1939)
Heliconia costanensis Aristeg. Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 25: 208 (1964)
Heliconia harrisiana (Griggs) L.B.Sm. Contr. Gray Herb. 124: 6 (1939)
Heliconia hirsuta var. rubriflora R.R.Sm. Phytologia 36: 258 (1977)
Heliconia hirsuta var. villosula Loes. Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 117: 13 (1916)
Heliconia straminea Standl. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 17: 162 (1927)
Thalia nemorosa Willd. ex Link Jahrb. Gewächsk. 1(3): 22 (1820)
Limnocharis haenkei C.Presl Reliq. Haenk. 1: 88 (1825)
Heliconia bicolor Klotzsch Linnaea 20: 465 (1847)

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Language Common/alternative name
Chinese 硬毛蝎尾蕉
Chinese 翠鸟蝎尾蕉

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Jamaica
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000437715
Tropicos 21500055
INPN 731890
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:796953-1
The Plant List kew-248417
Open Tree Of Life 3947074
NCBI Taxonomy 1765302
IPNI 796953-1
iNaturalist 343961
GBIF 2760766
Freebase /m/0bbcc0
EOL 1118022
USDA GRIN 27985
Wikipedia Heliconia_hirsuta

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A Phytosociological Study on Andean Rainforests of Peru, and a Comparison with the Surrounding Countries Galán-de-Mera A, Campos-de-la-Cruz J, Linares-Perea E, Montoya-Quino J, Torres-Marquina I, Vicente-Orellana JA Plants (Basel) 26-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7761437
doi:10.3390/plants9121654
PMID:33256180
Astonishing diversity—the medicinal plant markets of Bogotá, Colombia Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Romero C, Hart RE J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 20-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC6011411
doi:10.1186/s13002-018-0241-8
PMID:29925407
Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia Paniagua Zambrana NY, Bussmann RW, Hart RE, Moya Huanca AL, Ortiz Soria G, Ortiz Vaca M, Ortiz Álvarez D, Soria Morán J, Soria Morán M, Chávez S, Chávez Moreno B, Chávez Moreno G, Roca O, Siripi E J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 10-Oct-2017
PMCID:PMC5634836
doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0179-2
PMID:29017576
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

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