Heliconia caribaea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zingiberales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Zingiberales

Heliconia caribaea Lam., 1783

Bihai borinquena (Griggs) Griggs, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club., 445 (1904)
Bihai borinquena var. coccinea Griggs & Harris, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 42: 324 (1915)
Bihai conferta (Petersen) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 685 (1891)
Bihai luteofusca (Jacq.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 684 (1891)
Heliconia borinquena Griggs, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 658 (1903)
Heliconia conferta Petersen, Mart. Fl. Bras. 3: III. (1890) 13
Heliconia luteofusca Jacq., Hort. Schoenb. 1: 25 (1797)

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Southern America Regional: Caribbean Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Windward Is. Introduced into: Trinidad-Tobago References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Lamarck, J.-B. 1783–1785. Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique. Tome 1. XLIV+752 pp. Panckoucke, Paris; Plomteux, Liége. BHL Reference page. : 1:426.

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Heliconia caribaea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 08. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. Oct 08. Heliconia caribaea. Published online. Accessed: {{{3}}} Oct 08.
Tropicos.org 2021. Heliconia caribaea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 Oct 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Heliconia caribaea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 08. Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Heliconia caribaea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

English: lobsterclaw

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