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Internal ID UUID643ffd11e9863406234828
Scientific name Heliconia tortuosa
Authority Griggs
First published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 650 (1903)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Bihai tortuosa Griggs Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 445 (1904)

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000439216
Tropicos 21500040
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119512-2
The Plant List kew-248635
Open Tree Of Life 987247
Observations.org 446494
NCBI Taxonomy 1125927
IPNI 119512-2
iNaturalist 283633
GBIF 2760644
Freebase /m/0b_dm8
EOL 1117904
Elurikkus 297871
Wikipedia Heliconia_tortuosa

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Plasticity in Compensatory Growth to Artificial Defoliation and Light Availability in Four Neotropical Understory and Forest Edge Herb Species Sun JW, Sharifi MR, Rundel PW Biology (Basel) 19-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9598688
doi:10.3390/biology11101532
PMID:36290435
The Landscape Genetic Signature of Pollination by Trapliners: Evidence From the Tropical Herb, Heliconia tortuosa Torres-Vanegas F, Hadley AS, Kormann UG, Jones FA, Betts MG, Wagner HH Front Genet 05-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC6906188
doi:10.3389/fgene.2019.01206
PMID:31867039
Tropical Forest Fragmentation Limits Movements, but Not Occurrence of a Generalist Pollinator Species Volpe NL, Robinson WD, Frey SJ, Hadley AS, Betts MG PLoS One 12-Dec-2016
PMCID:PMC5152895
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167513
PMID:27941984
Corridors restore animal-mediated pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes Kormann U, Scherber C, Tscharntke T, Klein N, Larbig M, Valente JJ, Hadley AS, Betts MG Proc Biol Sci 27-Jan-2016
PMCID:PMC4795022
doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2347
PMID:26817765
Neotropical Copestylum Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) Breeding in Fruits and Flowers, Including 7 New Species Ricarte A, Marcos-García MÁ, Hancock EG, Rotheray GE PLoS One 18-Nov-2015
PMCID:PMC4651555
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142441
PMID:26580811
Pollinator recognition by a keystone tropical plant Betts MG, Hadley AS, Kress WJ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 02-Mar-2015
PMCID:PMC4371984
doi:10.1073/pnas.1419522112
PMID:25733902
The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) Staines CL, García-Robledo C Zookeys 22-Aug-2014
PMCID:PMC4155720
doi:10.3897/zookeys.436.5766
PMID:25197208
Hispines (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica Staines CL Zookeys 21-Dec-2011
PMCID:PMC3253642
doi:10.3897/zookeys.157.1338
PMID:22303103
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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