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Ruellia coccinea (yerba maravilla)

Synonyms: Arrhostoxylum coccineum (homotypic); Barleria coccinea (homotypic); Erythracanthus coccineus (homotypic); Stemonacanthus coccineus (homotypic)

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub

Predators

Lamponius portoricensis (Walkingstick)[2]
Riccordia maugaeus (Puerto Rican Emerald)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2{Structural and Taxonomic Components of Habitat Selection in the Neotropical Folivore Lamponius portoricensis (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae), Michael R. Willig, Elizabeth A. Sandlin and Michael R. Gannon, Environmental Entomology Vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 634-641 (June 1993)
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0