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Internal ID UUID643ffcf52237c611809732
Scientific name Heliconia metallica
Authority Planch. & Linden
First published in Bot. Mag. 88: t. 5315 (1862)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Bihai metallica Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 685 (1891)
Heliconia nana G.Rodr. Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 15: 127 (1954)
Heliconia osaensis var. rubescens F.G.Stiles Brenesia 18: 150 (1981)
Heliconia vinosa W.Bull ex Ender Gartenflora 20: 152 1871
Heliconia vinosa W.Bull

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Language Common/alternative name
English shining bird of paradise
Chinese 蝎尾蕉

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
    • Central America
      • Costa Rica
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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World Flora Online wfo-0000438197
USDA Plants HEME4
Tropicos 21500078
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:796967-1
The Plant List kew-248490
Open Tree Of Life 730120
NCBI Taxonomy 796952
Nature Serve 2.154588
IPNI 796967-1
iNaturalist 163641
GBIF 2760726
EOL 1117983
USDA GRIN 405274

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High species diversity in Diaporthe associated with citrus diseases in China Xiao XE, Liu YD, Zheng F, Xiong T, Zeng YT, Wang W, Zheng XL, Wu Q, Xu JP, Crous PW, Jiao C, Li HY Persoonia 27-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC11041894
doi:10.3767/persoonia.2023.51.06
PMID:38665984
Wide Distribution and Intraspecies Diversity in the Pathogenicity of Calonectria in Soil from Eucalyptus Plantations in Southern Guangxi of China Wu W, Chen S J Fungi (Basel) 29-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10455796
doi:10.3390/jof9080802
PMID:37623573
Holocene climate changes explain the spatial pattern in genetic diversity in populations of Cyperus papyrus from Southeast Africa wetlands Maxombe EL, Vieira LD, Sierens T, Triest L, Collevatti RG Heredity (Edinb) 26-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9613894
doi:10.1038/s41437-022-00563-9
PMID:36163272
Endophytic Diaporthe Associated with Morinda officinalis in China Luo M, Guo W, Zhao M, Manawasinghe IS, Guarnaccia V, Liu J, Hyde KD, Dong Z, You C J Fungi (Basel) 29-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9410054
doi:10.3390/jof8080806
PMID:36012794
Identification and Characterization of Calonectria Species Associated with Plant Diseases in Southern China Zhang Y, Chen C, Chen C, Chen J, Xiang M, Wanasinghe DN, Hsiang T, Hyde KD, Manawasinghe IS J Fungi (Basel) 09-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9324520
doi:10.3390/jof8070719
PMID:35887474
Prophyll in Monocots: The Starting Point of Lateral Shoot Phyllotaxis Choob V Front Plant Sci 13-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9044502
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.855146
PMID:35498710
Population genetic structure and connectivity of a riparian selfing herb Caulokaempferia coenobialis at a fine-scale geographic level in subtropical monsoon forest Fu Q, Deng J, Chen M, Zhong Y, Lu GH, Wang YQ BMC Plant Biol 08-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8265151
doi:10.1186/s12870-021-03101-7
PMID:34238223
Monocot Leaves are Eaten Less than Dicot Leaves in Tropical Lowland Rain Forests: Correlations with Toughness and Leaf Presentation Grubb PJ, Jackson RV, Barberis IM, Bee JN, Coomes DA, Dominy NJ, De La Fuente MA, Lucas PW, Metcalfe DJ, Svenning JC, Turner IM, Vargas O Ann Bot 02-Apr-2008
PMCID:PMC2710256
doi:10.1093/aob/mcn047
PMID:18387972
Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity McKenna DD, Farrell BD Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 03-Jul-2006
PMCID:PMC1544154
doi:10.1073/pnas.0602712103
PMID:16818884

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